CBSE Class 12 Sociology Practice Paper with Solution for Board Exam 2024 Download PDF for FREE

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Assertion(A): The Population Pyramid shows a bulge in the middle age groups, due to opportunity provided by the demographic structure.

Reason(R): This is due to high birth rate in the middle age groups.

a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

c) A is true but R is false.

d) A is false and R is true.

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Which of the following stages, as per the Theory of Demographic Transition, is that of high population growth?

a) First Stage

b) Both first and second stage 

c) Second Stage

d) Third Stage

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The interaction of the tribal communities with the mainstream has generally been on terms unfavourable for the tribals. Many tribal identities today are centred on ideas of ________________ to the overwhelming force of the non-tribal word.

a) Resistance and cooperation

b) Cooperation and opposition

c) Resistance and opposition

d) Movement and opposition

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Which of the following reasons are responsible for the invisibility of the caste system in the upper castes and upper middle class?

a) Policy of reservation

b) Education and Employment in Private Sector

c) developmental policies of the post-colonial era d) their lead over the rest of society (in terms of education) did not ensure protection from serious competition

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Which of the following make the Dominant Castes dominant?

I. small population

II. land rights

III. intermediate caste

IV. decisive role in regional politics

a) I. and II.

b) I. and III.

c) II., III., IV.

d) I. and IV

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In which ways Adivasis struggles are different from Dalit struggle?

a) They were not discriminated against like the Dalits.

b) Their social and economic conditions were better than the Dalits

c) They did not face social exclusion like the Dalits.

d) Adivasis were concentrated in contagious areas and could demand statehood

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The person who is refused a job because of his/her caste may be told that he/she was less qualified than others and the selection was done purely on merit. This is an example of

a) Discrimination

b) Social stratification

c) Egalitarianism

d) Stereotype

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Person from a well-off family can afford expensive higher education. Someone with influential relatives and friends may – through access to good advice, recommendations or information – manage to get a wellpaid job. Which concept is being talked of?

a) Forms of capital by Bourdieu

b) Resources by Bourdieu

c) Ideal types by Max Weber

d) Ideal Types by Bourdieu

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Historically, states have tried to establish and enhance their political legitimacy through nation-building strategies. They sought to secure … the loyalty and obedience of their citizens through policies of assimilation or integration. Attaining these objectives was not easy, especially in a context of cultural diversity where citizens, in addition to their identifications with their country, might also feel a strong sense of identity with their community – ethnic, religious, linguistic and so on.

Two nation building strategies used were

a) Assimilation and integration

b) Assimilation and sanskritisation

c)Integration and sanskritisation

d) Westernisation and sanskritisation

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Cultural diversity can present tough challenges. Which of the following is not a reason for challenge?

a) It can arouse intense passions among its members and mobilise large numbers of people

b) Economic and social inequalities among the communities.

c) Equal distribution of scarce resources- like river water, jobs or governments funds.

d) Injustices suffered by one community provoke opposition from same communities.

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While a few villages are totally absorbed in the process of expansion, only the land of many others, excluding the inhabited area, is used for urban development… The growth of ____________ cities accounts for the third type of urban impact on the surrounding villages.

a) Metropolitan

b) Small

c) Ghetto

d) Heritage

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Assertion (A): Urbanisation in the colonial period saw the formation of new urban centres.

Reason (R): These urban centres were designed to functions as trading posts alone.

a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

c) A is true but R is false.

d) A is false and R is true.

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Which of the following is not a result of contract farming?

a) It disengages many people from the production process.

b) Makes their own indigenous knowledge of agriculture irrelevant.

c) It is ecologically sustainable

d) Caters primarily to the production of elite items

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Major difference between developing and developed countries is in the number of people in ___________salaried employment.

a) Daily Wages

b) Regular

c) Irregular

d) Both b) & c)

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Women are also emerging as the main source of agricultural labour leading to ______________ labour force.

a) Feminization of agriculture

b) Womanisation of agriculture

c) Reformation of agriculture

d) Restoration of agriculture

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Which of the following is not a feature of social movements?

a) Sustained collective action

b) Aims to bring about changes on a public issue

c) Shared objectives and ideologies

d) Does not need leadership or structure

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