Haryana Board HBSE Class 11th Sociology Syllabus 2025, Download PDF Here

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HBSE Class 11 Sociology Syllabus 2025-26 

Class- XI 

Subject: SOCIOLOGY

Code: 585 

General Instructions: 

1. There will be an Annual Examination based on the entire syllabus. 
2. The Annual Examination will be of 80 marks, 20 marks weightage shall be for Internal Assessment. 
3. For Internal Assessment: 

There will be a Periodic Assessment that would include: 

(i) For 6 marks- Three SAT exams will be conducted and will have a weightage of 06 marks towards the final Internal Assessment.

 (ii) For 2 marks- One half-yearly exam will be conducted and will have a weightage of 02 marks towards the final Internal Assessment.

(iii) For 2 marks- The Subject teacher will assess and give a maximum 02 marks for CRP (Classroom participation). 

(iv) For 5 marks- A project work to be done by students and will have a weightage of 05 marks towards the final Internal Assessment. 

(v) For 5 marks- Attendance of the student will be awarded 05 marks as: 

HBSE Class 11 Sociology Syllabus Course Structure and Marks Distribution

The table below shows the course structure and marks distribution of sociology 

HBSE Class 11 Syllabus 2025-26

A.INTRODUCING SOCIOLOGY 

Chapter 1 - 

Sociology and Society

•  Introducing Sociology: Emergence, Meaning, Nature and Scope.
•  Origin and Development of Sociology in Europe.
•  Origin and Development of Sociology in India. 

• Relationship with other Social Science disciplines.

Chapter – 2 

Terms, Concepts and their use in Sociology 

• Society – Meaning and Types and Concepts
• Social Groups and Society – Meaning, Definition and Types of Groups 
• Social Stratification - Meaning, Definition, Caste and Class
• Status and Role - Meaning, Definition and related other Concepts
• Society & Social Control - Meaning, Definition, Types & Agency of Social Control 

Chapter 3 – 

Understanding Social Institutions

• Family, Marriage and Kinship – Meaning, Definition, Types and Rules 
• Work & Economic Life – Modern forms of work & Division of Labour, Transformation of work
• Political Institutions and State
• Religion as a Social Institution 
• Education as a Social Institution 

Chapter – 4 

Culture and Socialization

• Culture – Meaning, Definition, Characteristics, Types and Dimensions of Culture, others related Concepts 
• Socialization - Meaning, Definition, major Stage and Agencies of Socialisation

Chapter – 5 

Doing Sociology: Research Methods • Research Work – Meaning and Definition 

• Major Stages of Project/Research Work 

Research Methods – Survey, Interviews, Observation, Schedule, Questionnaires, Case Study 

•  Data & Types of Data 
•  Importance of Field work

1. UNDERSTANDING SOCIOLOGY 

Chapter – 1

 Social Structure, Stratification, and Social Processes in Society 

• Social Structure – Meaning, Concepts, Structure & Stratification
• Social Processes – Meaning, Concepts, & Types of Processes (Associative & Dissociative Processes) o Cooperation – Characteristics, Types and Role of Cooperation o Accommodation - Characteristics, Types and Importance, Forms or Methods of Accommodation o Assimilation – Definition, Characteristics and Concept o Competition - Definition, Characteristics, Forms of Competition & Role of Competition o Conflict- Definition, Characteristics, Causes of conflict, Types & Role of Conflict o Interrelations: Cooperation, Conflict and Competition

Chapter – 2 

• Social Change and Social Order in Rural and Urban Society
• Social Change: Meaning, Definition, Causes, Consequences, Types and Theories of   Social Change
• Social Order: Domination, Authority and Law; Contestation, Crime and Violence 
• Concepts: Village, Town and City
• Social Order and Social Change in Rural and Urban Areas

 Chapter – 3 

Environment and Society 

•  Social Ecology
•  Social Environments 
• Interaction between Environments & Society, Risk Societies
• Major Environmental Problems and Risks – Resource Depletion, Pollution, Global Warming, Genetically Modified Organisms
• Natural & Man made Environments Disasters 
• Why Environmental Problems are also Social Problems
•  Sustainable Development

Chapter – 4 

Introducing Western Sociologists • 

The Context of Sociology, The Enlightenment, The French & the Industrial Revolution 

• Karl Marx : Biography, Class Conflict, Alienation Socialism, etc.
• Emile Durkheim : Biography, Vision of Sociology, Division of Labour in society, Social Facts, Suicide, Social Solidarity, etc.
•  Max Weber : Biography, Interpretive Sociology, Ideal Type & Bureaucracy, Social Action, Social Solidarity, etc 

Chapter 5 Indian Sociologists 

• Sociology in India, Ananthakrishna Iyer and Sarat Chandra Roy 
• S. Ghurye on Caste and Race 
• P. Mukherjee on Tradition and Change 
• R. Desai on the State and Welfare State 
• M.N. Srinivas on the Village

HBSE Class 11 Sociology Syllabus Download PDF

HBSE Class 11 Sociology syllabus pdf download

HBSE Class 11 Sociology Books

Prescribed Books:

•  Indian Society, BSEH © NCERT. 
• Social Change and Development in India, BSEH © NCERT.