UK Board 12th Sociology Syllabus 2023-24: Download Revised UBSE Sociology Syllabus PDF

Theory

80 Marks

Project Work

20 Marks

Unit No. 

Unit Name

Marks

A. Indian Society

Introducing Indian Society

Non evaluative

Demographic Structure & Indian Society

10

Social Institutions-Continuity and change 

10

Pattern of Social Inequality and Exclusion

10

Challenges of Cultural Diversity

10

Suggestions for Project Work

Non evaluative 

B. Social Change and Development in India

Structural Change

5

Cultural Change

5

Change and Development in Rural Society 

10

Change and Development in Industrial Society

10

Social Movements

10

Total

80

A: INDIAN SOCIETY 

Unit 1: Introducing Indian Society

Colonialism, Nationalism, Class and Community 

Unit 2: Demographic Structure And Indian Society

• Theories and concepts in demography
• Rural-Urban Linkages and Divisions
• Population Policy in India

Unit 3: Social Institutions: Continuity & Change 

• Caste and the Caste System
• Tribal Communities
• Family and Kinship

Unit 4: Pattern of Social Inquality & 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 5: 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 6: Suggestions For Project Work

B. SOCIAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA 

Unit 7: Structural Change

• Understanding Colonialism, Industrialization, Urbanization

Unit 8: Cultural Change

• Social Reform Movements
• Different Kinds of Social Change: Sanskritisation, Westernization, Secularization 

Unit 9: 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 10: 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 11: 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

1-Project Work

Marks

a) Introduction

2

b) Statement of Purpose 

2

c) Research Question

2

d) Methodology 

3

e) Data Analysis 

3

f) Conclusion

1

g) Viva based on Project work  

2

2- Continuous assessment (Unit Test)

5

Total

20