Student Contact Hours: 90
Maximum Mark: 50
- Internal Assessment: 15
- Annual Examination: 35
C 1.4 CORE SOCIAL SCIENCE SYLLABUS
Unit 1
Nature of Social Science : data, method and evidence to be discussed in the context of history, geography, civics, sociology and economics. Role of social science discipline M the learner's development. Significance of perspective and context in the study of social sciences. (Exemplars: 1857, Secularism/ Communalism).
Unit 2
Relationship between human experience and the growth of institutions (to be studied in the context of the following concepts): monarchy, aristocracy, imperialist, fascist, nationalism, democracy and citizenship. (These concepts could be taught with examples from a content area which may be thought fit-the emphasis however, should be on the teaching of concepts). Unit 3 Relationship between human life, space and resources (to be studied in the context of the following) movement from a subsistent economy to a surplus economy; demography and the distribution of wealth in society; spatial interaction (to be taught in the Indian context).
Unit 4
Study of the relationships and interactions of people in groups : culture, social stratification and social change.
Unit 5
Project work : interconnections are to be drawn between the various disciplines that fall within social sciences through project work, e.g.
(a) Study of a slum setting in terms of economics, subsistence, politics, historical memories.
(b) Take two products available to you as a consumer. Try and trace the process by which it is made available to you from its raw form to a finished product. Study the various factors of geography, economics, politics, history and sociology that may have influenced it in one way or another.
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