Commerce (English Medium) Class 11 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions

What is meant by social ecology?

Describe some environment related conflicts that you know of or have read about. (Other than the examples in the text.)

Why do classes come into conflict, according to Marx?

What have you observed about the stratification system existing in your society? How are individual lives affected by stratification?

Discuss the different tasks that demand cooperation with reference to agricultural or industrial operations.

Is cooperation always voluntary or is it enforced? If enforced, is it sanctions, or is the strength of norms that ensure cooperation? Discuss with examples.

How are a village, town and city distinguished from each other?

What are some features of social order in rural areas?

What are some of the challenges to social order in urban areas?

What are social facts? How do we recognise them?

What is the difference between 'mechanical’ and `organic’ solidarity?

Show, with examples, how moral codes are indicators of social solidarity.

What are the basic features of bureaucracy?

What is special or different about the kind of objectivity needed in social science?

Try to find out what Marx and Weber wrote about India.

Can you think of reasons why we should study the work of thinkers who died long ago? What could be some reasons to not study them?

What is social control? Do you think the modes of social control in different spheres of society are different? Discuss.

How does sociology study religion?

Imagine a society where there is no competition. Is it possible? If not, why not?

Can you find illustrative examples of conflict drawn from Indian society? Discuss the causes that led to conflict in each instance.