Arts (English Medium) Class 11 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for Sociology

What arguments were given for and against the village as a subject of sociological research by M.N. Srinivas and Louis Dumont?

What is the significance of village studies in the history of Indian sociology? What role did M.N. Srinivas play in promoting village studies?

As a member of society, you must be interacting with and in different groups. How do you see these groups from a sociological perspective?

Note what are the marriage rules that are followed in your society? Compare your observations with these made by other students in the class. Discuss.

Find out how membership, residence pattern, and even the mode of interaction changes in the family with broader economic, political, and cultural changes, for instance, migration.

How can we demonstrate that the different dimensions of culture comprise a whole?

Compare two cultures with which you are familiar. Is it difficult not to be ethnocentric?

Discuss two different approaches to studying cultural change.

Is cosmopolitanism something you associate with modernity? Observe and give examples of ethnocentrism.

Would you agree with the statement that rapid social change is a comparatively new phenomenon in human history? Give reasons for your answer.

How is a social change to be distinguished from other kinds of change?

What do you understand by `structural change’? Explain with examples other than those in the text.

Describe some kinds of environment-related social change.

What are some kinds of changes brought about by technology and the economy?

What are some of the important forms of pollution-related environmental hazards?

What are the major environmental issues associated with resource depletion?

Why is the Enlightenment important for the development of sociology?

How was the Industrial Revolution responsible for giving rise to sociology?

What are the various components of a mode of production?

Write an essay on `work’. Focus on both the range of occupations, which exist and how they change.