ISC 2025 Sociology Question Paper for Class 12

About this paper

This is the ISC Class 12 Sociology paper set by CISCE for the 2025 board examination. It carries 70 marks, runs for three hours plus fifteen minutes of reading time, and has 12 compulsory questions in three sections. Section A is a single question of 14 one-mark parts, including multiple-choice and assertion–reason items and a few based on pictures or a scene from the film Thappad. Section B has seven four-mark short answers, with internal choices in Questions 7 and 8, and Section C has four seven-mark long answers, with an internal choice in Question 9. Some questions start from real events, such as the 2011 anti-corruption movement led by Anna Hazare and the 2005 rural employment guarantee, and the last question is a passage about a children's council in a village.

Exam

ISC Class 12

Subject

Sociology

Year

2025

Paper code

854

Maximum marks

70

Time allowed

3 hours + 15 min reading

Questions

12

Pages

7

Answers included

No, questions only

Paper pattern

• Section A

  14 marks

  Question 1 with 14 one-mark parts: multiple-choice, assertion–reason, picture-based and very short answers

• Section B

  28 marks

  Questions 2–8, short answers of four marks each; internal choice in Questions 7 and 8

• Section C

  28 marks

  Questions 9–12, long answers of seven marks each; internal choice in Question 9; Question 12 is passage-based

Topics covered

• Forms of marriage and cousin marriage
• Kinship usages and kinship terms
• Family and its types
• Caste and class
• Social mobility and Westernisation
• Tribal economy and dormitories
• Theories and concepts of religion
• Social movements
• Aspects of development and sustainable development
• Bal Panchayat

Questions from this paper

1. Explain any four functions of the dormitories in tribal communities.
2. Discuss any four differences between class and caste.
3. Caste as a system of social stratification is a divisive force. Justify the statement by highlighting any four negative impacts of caste on society.
4. Explain any two features each of amitate and teknonymy as kinship usages.
5. Discuss any seven differences between the consanguineous family and the conjugal family.
6. Explain the concept of taboo in religion.