CUET 2022 Sociology Question Paper with Answers & Solutions

Correct answer: A

Life expectancy is the estimated number of years an average person is expected to survive. Option B describes total fertility rate, C describes natural growth rate, D describes fertility rate.

Correct answer: C

Population momentum is the tendency for population to keep growing because of a large cohort of women in reproductive age, even when fertility per woman declines.

Correct answer: A

Social demography enquires into the wider social causes and consequences of population trends, whereas formal demography is primarily quantitative measurement of population processes.

Correct answer: B

Malthus called famines, diseases and natural calamities 'positive checks' (nature's checks) on population, as opposed to 'preventive checks' such as postponing marriage.

Correct answer: C

Sex ratio is defined as the number of females per 1000 males in a given area at a specified time period.

Correct answer: B

Jatavas - Uttar Pradesh (IV); Multani Lohars - Muslim Community (I); Khasis - Meghalaya (II); Vokkaligas - Karnataka (III). Hence A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III.

Correct answer: C

Brahmo Samaj - Raja Ram Mohan Roy (II); Widow remarriage - M. G. Ranade (I); Country's first school for girls - Savitri Bai Phule (IV); Anti Caste Movement - Jyotiba Phule (III). Hence A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III.

Correct answer: B

The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 specifically strengthened legal provisions against violence and humiliation of Dalits and Adivasis.

Correct answer: C

Caste is characterized by hereditary, restricted (not free) choice of occupation. Unrestricted choice of occupation is NOT a feature of caste.

Correct answer: B

Matrilineal and patrilineal refer to the line of descent/inheritance traced through the mother or father respectively.

Correct answer: C

'The Wealth of Nations' (1776) was written by Adam Smith, the founder of modern economics.

Correct answer: A

Liberalisation involves reducing state control through privatisation and marketisation, opening the economy to market forces and removing trade restrictions.

Correct answer: A

OBCs are socially and educationally backward classes, a heterogeneous group neither part of forward castes nor SC/ST.

Correct answer: A

Third gender - persons neither male nor female (II); Apartheid - separation of races (I); Adivasis - indigenous population, identity struggles (IV); Transgender - conversion of gender status by choice (III). Hence A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III.

Correct answer: C

Prejudice literally means 'pre-judgement' - an opinion formed in advance without familiarity with the subject or evidence.

Correct answer: B

Stree Purush Tulana - Tarabai Shinde (II); Three Sermons on Human Nature - Bishop Joseph Butler (III); Sultana's Dream - Begum Rokeya/Rukkaiyah Hossain (IV); The texts of the Hindu law - M. G. Ranade (I). Hence A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I.

Correct answer: A

Indian nationalism is inclusive precisely because it recognises and accommodates the country's vast diversity of religion, language, region and culture.

Correct answer: B

Secularism is opposed to communalism, not aligned with it. The statement that Indian secularism goes hand in hand with communalism is incorrect.

Correct answer: A

Community identity is ascribed - based on birth and belonging, not on achievement or choice. These are unchosen, ascriptive ties.

Correct answer: A

During the Emergency (1975-77) people experienced authoritarian rule; civil liberties were suspended, press was censored, and Congress was voted out in the 1977 elections. Hence only A is correct.

Correct answer: B

Sanskritisation involves positional change of an entire group/caste within the hierarchy, not improvement of status for individuals. It exaggerates/critiqued for overstating mobility, rests on purity-pollution notions, and erodes Dalit culture. Hence B is NOT a feature.

Correct answer: D

Unlike earlier conquerors, British colonialism deeply restructured the economic base (markets, production, land, forest laws). The idea that they merely extracted tribute without interfering in the economic base is NOT true of British colonialism.

Correct answer: D

Colonial cities were nodes of global capitalism, channels for cheap imports, and links between the colonised margins and Britain. Maintaining traditional values was NOT their economic role.

Correct answer: C

Britain was the first society to industrialize, with the Industrial Revolution beginning there in the late 18th century.

Correct answer: D

Secularization is the process whereby religion loses its influence over various spheres of social life.

Correct answer: D

Panchayats prepare development plans, promote social justice, and levy/collect taxes and fees. Ensuring endogamy is not a power or responsibility of Panchayats.

Correct answer: C

Nyaya Panchayats (judicial panchayats) have the authority to hear petty civil and criminal cases and impose fines.

Correct answer: B

The Green Revolution led to a shift to cash payment, rise of rural/market-oriented elites, and commercialization. It loosened (decreased) bonded labour and patron-client ties rather than increasing bonded labour.

Correct answer: D

Commercialization of agriculture promotes regional inequality, integration with the wider market economy and rural infrastructure, but does not promote organic farming (it usually increases chemical input use).

Correct answer: B

Occupational caste groups such as washermen, potters, goldsmiths and oil-pressers are classified as service castes who provided specialised services in the village economy.

Correct answer: B

Agrarian distress causes include liberalization (A), declining state support (B), high cost inputs (C) and changing crop pattern (E). Increased community involvement (D) is not a cause of distress. Hence A, B, C, E.

Correct answer: B

The Green Revolution increased market dependence, regional inequality and farmer risk, and pushed farmers toward mono-crop (single high-yield crop) systems, not multi-crop. So B is NOT true.

Correct answer: B

Alienation - workers do not enjoy work, task repetitive and exhausting (II); Convergence thesis - all countries follow same path to modernization (III); Scientific Management - work broken into small repetitive elements to increase efficiency (I); Harry Braverman - machinery actually de-skills workers (IV). Hence A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV.

Correct answer: B

Sequence: villagers pick and sell tender leaves (E), dampen the tender leaves (A), fill tobacco and tie with thread (C), contractor sells bidi to manufacturer (B), manufacturer sells to distributor (D). Hence E, A, C, B, D.

Correct answer: D

When the government sells its shares/stake in public sector companies, the process is called disinvestment.

Correct answer: C

Large retail chains are seen as a threat because they can destroy small local shops/grocery stores and the livelihoods dependent on them.

Correct answer: C

Engineers using software for draughting - de-skilling of workers (II); Trade Union - bargaining power of workers (IV); Silicosis in miners - occupational hazard (I); Growth of IT sector - knowledge economy (III). Hence A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III.

Correct answer: B

Corporate culture is the branch of management theory that seeks to boost productivity and competitiveness by creating a unique organizational culture involving all firm members.

Correct answer: D

Globalization - growing interdependence between people, regions and countries (II); Electric Economy - economic globalisation (I); Liberalisation - steady removal of rules regulating Indian trade and finance (IV); Cellular Telephone - growth in usage of cell phones (III). Hence A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III.

Correct answer: B

Vividh Bharati, started in 1957, became a hugely popular and money-spinning radio channel for All India Radio (carrying advertisements/film music).

Correct answer: C

The passage states the social movement for Jharkhand had a charismatic leader in Birsa Munda, an adivasi who led a major uprising against the British.

Correct answer: C

A social movement involves sustained collective action, shared objectives/ideologies, organization and leadership. Being spontaneous and disorganized is NOT a feature of a social movement.

Correct answer: D

New Social Movements are based on quality-of-life issues, identity and environment, going beyond old class-based economic inequality issues.

Correct answer: C

Adivasis shared a common hatred toward 'dikus' (outsiders), which included migrant traders and moneylenders who exploited them. Christian missionaries were not the common object of hatred. Hence A, B and C only.

Correct answer: A

The passage concludes that the movement 'helped create a unified ethnic consciousness and a shared identity as Jharkhandis.'

Correct answer: B

The passage states the tea industry began in India in 1851 under British rule, i.e., during the colonial period.

Correct answer: A

The passage stresses the bulk of labour had to be imported and recruited in large numbers, indicating the tea industry was labour intensive.

Correct answer: B

The passage says planters were unwilling to offer financial incentives, so high wages were NOT a reason. Migrant labour was used because of sparsely populated, uninhabited hillside locations and labour-intensive work.

Correct answer: D

The Act was a regressive penal law used to coerce and exploit labourers; it benefited planters, contractors and the colonial government but was NOT helpful for the labourers.

Correct answer: C

The passage states the Act of 1863 was 'amended in 1865, 1870 and 1873.'