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CBSE Class 12 Sociology 2022 — Previous-Year Question Paper

CBSE Class XII Board 2022 · Set 62/BAB/4

Real board examination

About the 2022 exam: 2022 was CBSE's special COVID year: the board exam was split into two terms instead of one 80-mark paper. Term 1 (Dec 2021) was multiple-choice only; Term 2 (2022 — the paper shown here) was a shorter subjective paper of just 14 questions for 40 marks. So the smaller size IS the real exam that year, not missing content. The paper is complete (14/14), taken verbatim from the official CBSE paper. Some topics examined then have since been removed from the syllabus — badged and filterable above.

About this paper

The real Class-12 board examination held in 2022. Every question below is solved the concept-first way. Sample papers are labelled honestly — never shown as a past exam.

Total marks
40
Questions
14
Duration
120 min
Sections
4

The marks / questions / duration above are the official exam pattern. We currently have 14 of this paper’s questions (100% of the full paper), with 14 fully solved. Questions we couldn’t yet extract or verify are held — never shown as complete.

Sections & marks

SectionTypeQuestionsMarks eachTotal
ASection ASource-based (≤10-15 words)212
BSection BVery short answer7214
CSection CShort answer3412
DSection DLong answer2612
Total1440

The question paper

The questions we hold for this paper, laid out by section. Solutions are on the Answers tab.

Board Examination

Sociology

CBSE Class XII Board 2022 · Set 62/BAB/4

Series/Set: 62/BAB/4Roll No. ________
Time Allowed: 2 hoursMaximum Marks: 40

General Instructions

  1. This question paper contains 14 questions divided into 4 sections — A, B, C, D.
  2. Section A comprises 2 questions of 1 mark each (Source-based (≤10-15 words)).
  3. Section B comprises 7 questions of 2 marks each (Very short answer).
  4. Section C comprises 3 questions of 4 marks each (Short answer).
  5. Section D comprises 2 questions of 6 marks each (Long answer).

Above is the official exam pattern. The questions printed below are those we currently hold for this paper.

Section A

Source-based (≤10-15 words) · 1 mark each · 2 of 2 shown

Q1.
Read the source and answer the question : Urban luxury manufactures like the high quality silks and cottons of Dacca or Murshidabad must have been hit first by the almost simultaneous collapse of indigeneous court demand and the external market on which these had largely depended. Village crafts in the interior and particularly, in regions other than eastern India where British penetration was earliest and deepest, probably survived much longer, coming to be seriously affected only with the spread of railways. (Sarkar : 1983 : 29) When British took over states and towns of India, some of them lost their courts, artisans and court gentry. Give any one reason.
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Q2.
Read the source and answer the question : Ways of thinking ..... John Stuart Mill's essay 'On Liberty' soon after its publication became a text in Indian colleges. Indians came to know about Magna Carta, and the struggle for liberty and equality in Europe and America. Mention the kind of Westernization being referred to in the given source.
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Section B

Very short answer · 2 marks each · 7 of 7 shown

Q1.
Many of our cultural practices and patterns can be traced to our agrarian backgrounds. Structural and cultural changes are closely inter-related. Most of the New Year festivals in different regions of India celebrate the main harvest season.
  • (a) “There is a close relationship between agriculture and culture.” Give one reason to support the given statement.
  • (b) Name any two agriculture related festivals.
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Q2.
A social movement requires sustained collective action over time. Such action is often directed against the state and takes the form of demanding changes in state policy or practice. Spontaneous and disorganised protest cannot be called a social movement.
  • (a) Write any two features of a social movement.
  • (b) Give an example of a Dalit Movement.
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Q3.
“There is a vital difference between the empire building of pre-capitalist times and that of capitalist times.” What is this difference ?
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Q4.
“Sanskritisation seems to justify a model that rests on inequality and exclusion.” Give two reasons to support this statement.
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Q5.
The varied social reform movements did have common themes. Yet there were also significant differences. State any two differences.
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Q6.
(a) What are Redemptive or Transformatory social movements ? Give one example. OR (b) What is meant by Reformist social movements ? Give one example.
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Q7.
“For Indian nationalists, the issue of economic exploitation under colonial rule was a central issue.” How did Indian nationalists promote industrialisation in the early years of independence ?
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Section C

Short answer · 4 marks each · 3 of 3 shown

Q1.
How did commercialisation of agriculture lead to circulation of labour ?
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Q2.
(a) Job recruitment as a factory worker takes a different pattern. Explain this pattern. OR (b) Explain ‘Scientific Management’ system. What shift from Scientific Management took place in the 1980s ?
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Q3.
Mention the positive and negative aspects of ‘contract farming’ system.
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Section D

Long answer · 6 marks each · 2 of 2 shown

Q1.
(a) What is the difference between a strike and a lockout ? Discuss the famous strike of Bombay Textile Mills of 1982. OR (b) Home based work is an important part of the economy. Explain by giving an example.
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Q2.
Are ecological movements new or old social movements ? Explain the above using the Chipko Movement as an example.
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