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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