Science (English Medium) कक्षा १२ - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for Sociology

Are ecological movements new or old social movements? Explain the above using the Chipko Movement as an example.

What is the basic task of a manager?

"The main criteria for inclusion in civil society are that the organisation should not be state controlled, and it should not be a purely commercial profit-making entity.", Discuss the given statement at length.

Discuss the phenomenon of 'Time slavery' in the IT sector.

Based upon above passage, answer the following question.

What, according to you, is the impact of the factory‟s working condition on the workers and on the factory?

Work in the IT sector is also subjected to Taylorist labour processes. Substantiate this statement with a suitable example.

There are direct linkages between the situation of agricultural workers and  their lack of upward socio-economic mobility. Name some of them.

Choose any occupation you see around you – and describe it along the  following lines: a) social composition of the work force – caste, gender, age,  region; b) labour process – how the work takes place, c) wages and other  benefits, d) working conditions – safety, rest times, working hours etc. 

In the account of brickmaking, bidi rolling, software engineers or mines  that are described in the boxes, describe the social composition of the  workers. What are the working conditions and facilities available? How  do girls like Madhu feel about their work?

Visit a construction site in your neighbourhood, a brickyard, or other such  place where you are likely to find migrant workers. Find out where the workers come from. How are they recruited from their home villages, who  is the ‘mukadam’? If they are from rural areas, find out about their lives in their villages and why they have to migrate to find work.

Distinguish between peasent and New Farmenr’s movements.

A South American proverb says – “If hard labour were really such a good thing, the rich would keep it all for themselves!” What does this proverb imply?

Compare the impact of just-in-time for the company vis-à-vis the worker.

Show the relation between circulation of labour and feminization of agricultural labour force.

Women are also emerging as the main source of agricultural labour leading to ______ labour force.

How did the commercialisation of agriculture lead to the circulation of labour?

Assertion (A): The government has passed a number of laws to regulate the working conditions in coal mines.

Reason (R): Many contractors maintain proper register of workers and take responsibility for accidents giving all possible benefits.

At the time of Independence we had two most classical cases of peasant movements. Write the names of the two peasant movements.

Write the meaning of the term 'circulation', in the concept of circulation of labour.

Why does Jan Breman use the term "footloose" for labour?