CBSE 12th Class Sociology Syllabus

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Course Structure

Course Syllabus

Part A: Indian Society

Unit 1: Introducing Indian Society

• Colonialism, Nationalism, Class and Community

Unit 2: Demographic Structure and Indian Society

• Rural-Urban Linkages and Divisions

Unit 3: Social Institutions: Continuity and Change

• Family and Kinship
• The Caste System

Unit 4: Market as a Social Institution

• Market as a Social Institution

Unit 5: Pattern of Social Inequality and Exclusion

• Caste Prejudice, Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes
• Marginalization of Tribal Communities
• The Struggle for Women’s Equality
• The Protection of Religious Minorities
• Caring for the Differently Abled

Unit 6: The Challenges of Cultural Diversity

• Problems of Communalism, Regionalism, Casteism and Patriarchy
• Role of the State in a Plural and Unequal Society
• What We Share

Unit 7: Suggestions for Project Work

B. Change and Development in India

Unit 8: Structural Change

• Colonialism, Industrialization, Urbanization

Unit 9: Cultural Change

• Modernization, Westernization, Sanskritisation, Secularization
• Social Reform Movements and Laws

Unit 10: The Story of Democracy

• The Constitution as an instrument of Social Change
• Parties, Pressure Groups and Democratic Politics
• Panchayati Raj and the Challenges of Social Transformation

Unit 11: Change and Development in Rural Society

• Land Reforms, Green Revolution and Agrarian Society

Unit 12: Change and Development in Industrial Society

• From Planned Industrialization to Liberalization
• Changes in the Class Structure

Unit 13: Globalisation and Social Change

Unit 14: Mass Media and Communication Process

Unit 15: Social Movements

• Class-Based Movements: Workers, Peasants

• Caste-Based Movements: Dalit Movement, Backward Castes, Trends in Upper Caste

• Responses

• Women’s Movements in Independent India

• Tribal Movements

• Environmental Movements

Practical Work

• Project (undertaken during the academic year at school level)
  • Statement of the purpose
  • Methodology/Technique
  • Conclusion
• Viva – based on the project work
• Research design
  • Overall format
  • Research Question/Hypothesis
  • Choice of technique
  • Detailed procedure for implementation of technique
  • Limitations of the above technique

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