CBSE Sociology Syllabus for Class 12 2023-24: Download PDF

Units

Marks

A

Indian Society

Introducing Indian Society

Non-evaluative

The Demographic Structure of Indian Society

10

Social Institutions: Continuity and Change

10

Patterns of Social Inequality and Exclusion

10

The Challenges of Cultural Diversity

10

Suggestions for Project Work

Non-evaluative

Total

40

B

Social Change and Development in Indian

Structural Change

05

Cultural Change

05

Change and Development in Rural Society

10

Change and Development in Industrial Society

10

Social Movements

10

Total

40

Total

80

A. INDIAN SOCIETY

Unit 1 Introducing Indian Society
– Colonialism, Nationalism, Class and Community

Unit 2 The Demographic Structure of the Indian Society
– Theories and concepts in demography
– Rural-Urban Linkages and Divisions
– Population Policy in India

Unit 3 Social Institutions: Continuity and Change
– Caste and the Caste System
– Tribal Communities
– Family and Kinship

Unit 5 Patterns of Social Inequality and Exclusion
– Social Inequality and Social Exclusion
– Systems justifying and perpetuating Inequality – Caste, Tribe, the Other Backward Classes
– Adivasi Struggles
– The Struggle for Women’s Equality and Rights
– The struggles of the Differently Abled

Unit 6 The Challenges of Cultural Diversity
– Cultural communities and the nation state
– Regionalism in the Indian context
– The Nation state and religion related issues and identities
– Communalism, secularism and the nation state
– State and Civil Society

Unit 7 Suggestions for Project Work

B. SOCIAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA

Unit 8 Structural Change
– Understanding Colonialism, Industrialization, Urbanization

Unit 9 Cultural Change
– Social Reform Movements
– Different Kinds of Social Change: Sanskritisation, Westernization, Modernization, Secularization

Unit 11 Change and Development in Rural Society
– Agrarian Structure : Caste & class in Rural India
– Land Reforms, Green Revolution and Emerging Agrarian society
– Green revolution and its social consequences
– Transformation in Rural Society
– Circulation of labour
– Globalization, Liberalization and Rural Society

Unit 12 Change and Development in Industrial Society
– From Planned Industrialization to Liberalization
– How people find Jobs
– Work Processes: How work is carried out, working conditions, home based work, Strikes and Unions

Unit 15 Social Movements

– Concept of Social Movements

– Theories and Classification of Social Movements

– Environmental Movements

– Class-Based Movements: Workers, Peasants

– Caste-Based Movements: Dalit Movement, Backward Class/Castes, Trends in Upper Caste Responses

– Tribal Movements

– Women’s Movements in Independent India

C. Project undertaken during the academic year at school level (15 Marks)

1. Introduction -2 Marks

2. Statement of Purpose – 2 Marks

3. Research Question – 2 Marks

4. Methodology – 3 Marks

5. Data Analysis – 4 Marks

6. Conclusion – 2 Marks

D. Viva – based on the project work (05 Marks)

1. Indian Society, Class XII, Published by NCERT

2. Social Change and Development in India, Class XII, published by NCERT