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Sociology and Society - Revision Notes

  CBSE Class 11 Sociology Revision Notes Chapter 1 Sociology and Society Sociology studies human society as an interconnected whole and how society and the individual interact with each other. One of the tasks of sociology is to unravel the connection between a personal problem and a public issue. It tries to understand that the individual in modern times belongs to more than one society and how societies are unequal. Thus, sociology as a systematic study of society, distinct from philosophical and religious reflections, as well as our everyday common sense observation about society. This distinct way of studying society can be better understood if we look back historically at the intellectual ideas and material contexts within which sociology was born and later grew. The sociological imagination C. Wright Mills rests his vision of the sociological imagination precisely in the unravelling of how the personal and public are related. The sociological imagination enables us to grasp h...
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Terms Concepts and Their Use in Sociology - Revision Notes

  CBSE Class 11 Sociology Revision Notes Chapter 2 Terms, Concepts and their use in Sociology According to Sociologist, Peter Berger, terminology is possibly very important for sociology, because we are familiar with its subject matter and there already exist words to denote it. Every discipline has a certain set of terms and corresponding concepts that will helps in learning and understanding the discipline clearly. Terms can be a word or phrase used to describe a thing or express a concept, especially in a brand of study. Concepts on the other hand is an abstract idea that helps to explain or conceptualize a term to gain better understating of the subject matter of study. Terms will be universal in nature and everyone associated with the brand of study will be familiar with it. However, concepts can be of different kinds based on different ideas. Sociology as a discipline is marked by different ways of understanding society and abrupt social changes brought due to modernisation. ...
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Terms Concepts and Their Use in Sociology - Solutions

  CBSE Class 11 Sociology NCERT Solutions Chapter 2 Terms, Concepts and their use in Sociology 1. Why do we need to use special terms and concepts in sociology? Ans. We need specific terms and concepts in sociology to understand our divergent views about how and why society exists. The terms and concepts reflect the concern of social thinkers to understand and map the social changes. It reflects the concern that sociologists had in understanding the structured inequalities between groups and society. Terms and concepts acts as tool of different ways to understand society. Sociology as a discipline allows coexistence of concepts that leads to divergence of views. For example, conflict theory versus the functionalist theory. This multiplicity of approaches is particularly acute in sociology. Or, how different thinkers explain society and its functioning. 2. As a member of society you must be interacting with and in different groups. How do you see these groups from a sociological per...
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Understanding Social Institutions - Revision Notes

  CBSE Class 11 Sociology Revision Notes Chapter 3 Understanding Social Institutions An institution is something that works according to rules established or at least acknowledged by law or by custom. Thus, “an established and structured pattern of behaviour or of relationships that is accepted as a fundamental part of a culture” can be referred to as social institutions. There are social institutions that constrain and control, punish and reward. Social institutions can be macro like the state or micro like the family. FAMILY According to Burgess and Locke, "A group of persons united by ties of marriage, blood or adoption constituting a single household, interacting and inter-communicating with each other in their respective social rites of husband and wife, mother and father, son and daughter, brother and sister, creating a common culture." Family is the most natural social entity that appears to be universal and unchanging. It is important in all societies yet different in...
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Culture and Socialisation - Solutions

  CBSE Class 11 Sociology NCERT Solutions Chapter 4 Culture and Socialisation 1. How does the understanding of culture in social science differ from the everyday use of the word 'culture'? Ans.  Culture refers to widely shared customs, beliefs, values, norms, institutions and other products of a community that are transmitted socially across generations. In social perspective culture refers to the products of socialisation with an organised group, society or nation and involves a set of rules, norms and customs that are agreed by the members of that group. In general terms, culture refers to acquiring etiquette of society and liking for fine arts like music, painting, folk songs, folk dances etc. Therefore, basic term is used as people being cultured or uncultured. For a sociologist, the culture of a society is the way of life of its members, the collection of ideas and habit which they learn, share and transmit from generation to generation. It is a complex whole which includ...
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