Question Paper Outside Delhi 2017 set 1 CBSE Class 12 Sociology

General Instructions:

• There are 25 questions in all.

All questions are compulsory.

• Questions no. 1 - 14 are short-answer type questions carrying 2 marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 30 words.
• Questions no. 15 – 21 are long-answer type questions carrying 4 marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 80 words.
• Questions no. 22 – 25 are very long-answer type questions carrying 6 marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 200 words.

Question no. 25 is to be answered on the basis of the passage given.

1. Mention the factors responsible for the decline in the child sex ratio in India.

Ans. Factors responsible for the decline in sex ratio in India

- Sex specific abortion - foeticide

- Female infanticide

- Preference for male child

- Severe neglect of infants -girls.

2. Who are the tribal?

Ans. Tribals -

A social group consisting of collection of families and lineages based on shared ties of kinship, ethnicity, and common history of territorial – political organization. OR Believed to be people of the forests whose distinctive habitat in the hill and forest areas shaped their economic, social and political attributes. OR 1/10

Tribes were communities that did not -

- practice a religion with a written text,

- have a state or political form,

- have sharp class division,

- have caste.

- They were neither Hindus nor peasants

3. What changes have taken place due to marketisation?

Ans. Changes due to marketization 2- Removal of economic controls (deregulations)

- Privatization of industries

- Removing of government control over wages and prices

- Lead to better economic growth

4. How are the privileged minorities politically vulnerable?

Ans. Privileged Minority – Vulnerable,

As there is a demographic dominance of the majority.

- Face the risk that the majority community will capture political power through elections.

- The dominant majority uses the state machinery to suppress the religious or cultural institutions of the minorities; forcing them to abandon their distinctive identity.

1. "In Indian nationalism, the dominant trend was marked by an inclusive and a

democratic vision." What do you understand by the words 'inclusive' and 'democratic' in this statement?

Ans. In the above statement "inclusive "and "democratic "mean -

- Inclusive because it recognized diversity and plurality

- Democratic because it sought to do away with discrimination and exclusion and bring forth a just and equitable society.

6. How does industrialisation lead to de-industrialisation?

Ans. Industrialization led to de-industrialization in India -

-Industrialization lead to setting up of factories in Britain – emergence of machine production.

- De-industrialization – unlike Britian , traditional manufacture and export declined in India

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