What are the common features of disability all over the world?

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Sociology

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CBSE Class 12

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1.

Define the term Caste.

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2. What is the significance of the term 'Dalit'?
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3.

What is a status symbol?

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4.

Write a note on tribal political institutions by giving suitable examples.

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5.

India is socially and culturally one of the most diverse countries of the world. Explain.

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6.

Write a note on ‘National Development versus tribal development’.

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7.

What does social exclusion mean? Why is it involuntary?

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8.

What are the common features of 'disability' all over the world?


  1. All over the world there have been people who are differently abled. Disability is understood as biological given.
  2. Whenever confronted with problems, it is taken for granted that the problem originates from their impairment.
  3. Now a days terms as 'mentally challenged'/visually impaired and 'physically compared' are being used to replace the more trite negative terms such as 'retarded', 'crippled' or 'lame'. The 'disabled' are caused disabled not because they are biologically disabled but society causes them so.
  4. The social construction of disability has a different dimension. We find a close relationship between disability and poverty, malnutrition, mothers weakened by frequent childbirth, insufficient immunisation programmes, accidents in overpopulated homes. Undoubtedly, disabled people are among the poorest in the poor countries.
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9.

Read the following passage and answer the questions below:
New Delhi : A few districts in the eight empowered action group (EAG) states have excelled by achieving the targets set by the United Nations under the millennium development goals (MDGs). The EAG states are Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and Rajasthan.
Of the 248 districts of the EAG states and Assam categorized as having the worst health indicators – six have reduced the infant mortality rate (IMR) to 28. The MDG target is to bring down the IMR – the number of infant deaths per 1,000 live births – to 28 by 2015. The districts are Purbi Singhbhum and Dhanbad (Jharkhand); Chamoli, Rudraprayag, Pithoragarh and Almora (Uttarakhand).
Bokaro and Ranchi (Jharkhand), Bageshwar and Nainital (Uttarakhand) are also close to achieving the goals but sadly enough, female infants in these districts experience a higher mortality than male infants and mortality in rural areas is worse than those in urban centres. The survey also reveals that the smaller States carved out of the bigger ones in the recent past have performed better.

What does Millennium Development Goal target for 2015?

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Read the following passage and answer the questions below:
New Delhi : A few districts in the eight empowered action group (EAG) states have excelled by achieving the targets set by the United Nations under the millennium development goals (MDGs). The EAG states are Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and Rajasthan.
Of the 248 districts of the EAG states and Assam categorized as having the worst health indicators – six have reduced the infant mortality rate (IMR) to 28. The MDG target is to bring down the IMR – the number of infant deaths per 1,000 live births – to 28 by 2015. The districts are Purbi Singhbhum and Dhanbad (Jharkhand); Chamoli, Rudraprayag, Pithoragarh and Almora (Uttarakhand).
Bokaro and Ranchi (Jharkhand), Bageshwar and Nainital (Uttarakhand) are also close to achieving the goals but sadly enough, female infants in these districts experience a higher mortality than male infants and mortality in rural areas is worse than those in urban centres. The survey also reveals that the smaller States carved out of the bigger ones in the recent past have performed better.

What is infant mortality rate? Name the districts which have reduced their IMR to 28.

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