UK Board Class 12 Sociology Syllabus

Sociology is introduced as an elective subject at the senior secondary stage. The syllabus is designed to help learners to reflect on what they hear and see in the course of everyday life and develop a constructive attitude towards society in change; to equip a learner with concepts and theoretical skills for the purpose. The curriculum of Sociology at this stage should enable the learner to understand the dynamics of human behavior in all its complexities and manifestations. The learners of today need answers and explanations to satisfy the questions that arise in their minds while trying to understand the social world.

Therefore, there is a need to develop an analytical approach towards the social structure so that they can meaningfully participate in the process of social change. There is scope in the syllabus
not only for interactive learning, based on exercises and project work but also for teachers and students to jointly innovate new ways of learning.

• Sociology studies society. The child’s familiarity with the society in which she /he lives in makes the study of Sociology a double-edged experience. At one level Sociology studies institutions such as family and kinship, class, caste and tribe religion, and region- contexts with which children are familiar with, even if differentially. For India is a society which is varied both horizontally and vertically. The effort in the books will be to grapple overtly with this both as a source of strength and as a site for interrogation.
• Significantly the intellectual legacy of Sociology equips the discipline with a plural perspective that overtly engages with the need for defamiliarization, to unlearn and question the given. This interrogative and critical character of Sociology also makes it possible to understand both other cultures as well as relearn about one’s own culture.

UK Board Class 12 Sociology Syllabus

• This plural perspective makes for an inbuilt richness and openness that not too many other disciplines in practice share. From its very inception Sociology has had mutually enriching and contesting traditions of an interpretative method that openly takes into account ‘subjectivity’ and causal explanations that pay due importance to establish causal correspondences with considerable sophistication. Not surprisingly its fieldwork tradition also entails large-scale survey methods as well as a rich ethnographic tradition. Indeed Indian sociology, in particular, has bridged this distinction between what has often been seen as distinct approaches of Sociology and social anthropology. The syllabus provides ample opportunity to make the child familiar with the excitement of fieldwork as well as its theoretical significance for the very discipline of Sociology.
• The plural legacy of Sociology also enables a bird’s eye view and a worm’s eye view of the society the child lives in. This is particularly true today when the local is inextricably defined and shaped by macro global processes.
• The syllabus proceeds with the assumption that gender as an organizing principle of society cannot be treated as an add-on topic but is fundamental to the manner that all chapters shall be dealt with.
• The chapters shall seek for a child-centric approach that makes it possible to connect the lived reality of children with social structures and social processes that Sociology studies.
• A conscious effort will be made to build into the chapters a scope for exploration of a society that makes learning a process of discovery. A way towards this is to deal with sociological concepts, not as givens but a product of societal actions humanly constructed and therefore open to questioning.

Objectives For UK Board Class 12 Sociology Syllabus :

• Enable learners to relate classroom teaching to their outside environment.
• Introduce them to the basic concepts of Sociology that would enable them to observe and interpret social life.
• Be aware of the complexity of social processes.
• Appreciate diversity in Indian society and the world at large.
• Build the capacity of students to understand and analyze the changes in contemporary Indian society

UK Board Class 12 Sociology Syllabus

One Paper Theory: Marks 80
Unitwise Weightage: 3 hours

Practical Examination
UK Board Class 12 Sociology Syllabus

40 Periods

INDIAN SOCIETY: 32 Marks

Unit 1: Introducing Indian Society: 10 Periods

• Colonialism, Nationalism, Class, and Community

Unit 2: The Demographic Structure of the Indian Society: 10 Periods

• Theories and concepts in demography
• Rural-Urban Linkages and Divisions

Unit 3: Social Institutions: Continuity and Change: 12 Periods

• The Caste System
• Family and Kinship

Unit 4: Market as a Social Institution: 10 Periods

• Sociological perspectives on markets and the economy
• Globalization – Interlinking of Local, Regional, National and International Markets

Unit 5: Patterns of Social Inequality and Exclusion: 20 Periods

• Caste Prejudice, Scheduled Castes, and Other Backward Classes
• Marginalization of Tribal Communities
• The Struggle for Women’s Equality
• The struggles of the Differently Abled

Unit 6: The Challenges of Cultural Diversity: 20 Periods

• Cultural communities and the nation-state
• Problems of Communalism, Regionalism, and Casteism
• The Nation state, religion-related issues, and identities
• Communalism, secularism and the nation-state
• State and Civil Society

Unit 7: Suggestions for Project Work: 16 Periods

CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA: 48 Marks

Unit 8: Structural Change: 10 Periods

• Colonialism, Industrialization, Urbanization

Unit 9: Cultural Change: 12 Periods

• Modernization, Westernization, Sanskritisation, Secularization
• Social Reform Movements and Laws

Unit 10: The Story of Indian Democracy: 16 Periods

• The Constitution as an instrument of Social Change
• Panchayati Raj and the Challenges of Social Transformation
• Parties, Pressure Groups, and Democratic Politics

Unit 11: Change and Development in Rural Society: 10 Periods

• Land Reforms, Green Revolution and Emerging Agrarian society
• Agrarian Structure: Caste & class in Rural India
• Land Reforms
• Green revolution and its social consequences
• Transformation in Rural Society
• Globalization, Liberalization and Rural Society

Unit 12: Change and Development in Industrial Society: 14 Periods

• From Planned Industrialization to Liberalization
• Getting a Job
• Work Processes

Unit 13: Globalisation and Social Change: 10 Periods

• Dimensions of Globalization

Unit 14: Mass Media and Communication: 14 Periods

• Types of Mass Media: Radio, Television and Print Media
• Changing Nature of Mass Media

Unit 15: Social Movements: 18 Periods

• Theories and Classification of Social Movements
• Class-Based Movements: Workers, Peasants
• Caste-Based Movements: Dalit Movement, Backward Castes, Trends in Upper Caste Responses
• Women’s Movements in Independent India
• Tribal Movements
• Environmental Movements

Prescribed Books For UK Board Class 12 Sociology Syllabus

1. Introducing Sociology, Class XI, Published by NCERT
2. Understanding Society, Class XI, Published by NCERT
3. Indian Society, Class XII, Published by NCERT
4. Social Change and Development in India, Class XII, published by NCERT

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