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

What is a welfare state? Why is A.R. Desai critical of the claims made on its behalf?

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?

Identify any personal problems that you or your friends or relatives are facing. Attempt a sociological understanding.

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.

What are some of the reasons for `objectivity’ being more complicated in social sciences, particularly disciplines like sociology?

What is meant by `reflexivity’ and why is it important in sociology?

What are some of the things that ethnographers and sociologists do during participant observation?

What are the strengths and weaknesses of participant observation as a method?

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.