What is CBSE Class 12th Sociology Syllabus?

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    Students can check below the Chapter and units covered in the CBSE Class 12 Sociology syllabus 2026.

    UnitChapter/Topics
    Unit 1: Introducing Indian Society
    • Colonialism, Nationalism, Class and Community (Nonevaluative)
    Unit 2: The Demographic Structure of the Indian Society
    • Theories and concepts in demography
    • Rural-Urban Linkages and Divisions
    • Population Policy in India
    Unit 3: Social Institutions: Continuity and Change
    • Caste and the Caste System
    • Tribal Communities
    • Family and Kinship
    Unit 5: Patterns of Social Inequality and Exclusion
    • Social Inequality and Social Exclusion
    • Systems justifying and perpetuating Inequality - Caste,
    • Tribe, the Other Backward Classes
    • Adivasi Struggles
    • The Struggle for Women’s Equality and Rights
    • The Struggles of the Differently Abled
    Unit 6: The Challenges of Cultural Diversity
    • Cultural communities and the nation state
    • Regionalism in the Indian context
    • The Nation state and religion related issues and
    • identities
    • Communalism, secularism and the nation state
    • State and Civil Society
    Unit 8: Structural Change
    • Understanding Colonialism, Industrialization, Urbanization
    Unit 9: Cultural Change
    • Social Reform Movements
    • Different Kinds of Social Change: Sanskritisation, Westernization, Modernization, Secularization
    Unit 11: Change and Development in Rural Society
    • Agrarian Structure : Caste & class in Rural India
    • Land Reforms, Green Revolution and Emerging Agrarian society
    • Green revolution and its social consequences
    • Transformation in Rural Society
    • Circulation of labour
    • Globalization, Liberalization and Rural Society
    Unit 12: Change and Development in Industrial Society
    • From Planned Industrialization to Liberalization
    • How people find Jobs
    • Work Processes: How work is carried out, working conditions, home based work, Strikes and Unions
    Unit 15: Social Movements
    • Concept of Social Movements
    • Theories and Classification of Social Movements
    • Environmental Movements
    • Class-Based Movements: Workers, Peasants

    To know more on CBSE Class 12 Sociology Syllabus 2026 and to download subject-wise syllabus PDF, click on CBSE 12th syllabus 2026.

     

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