Exam-oriented handwritten-style notes — every page laid out like class notes, with highlighting, boxes and a mind map, built to be read the night before rather than skimmed.
Unit 7 of the CBSE Class 11 Sociology paper carries 12 marks out of 80. It is the first examined chapter of Book 2, Understanding Society, where NCERT prints it as Chapter 2.
What are the types and causes of social change?
Every type (evolutionary, revolutionary) and every cause the chapter gives — environmental, technological, economic, political and cultural — sorted into one table.
How are power, authority and law connected?
They form a chain: power becomes authority when it is accepted as legitimate, and authority is written down as law. The notes follow that chain step by step, with domination and legitimacy defined on the way.
Why is crime defined by law and not by morality?
Because an act is a crime only if a law forbids it. The chapter’s own example is Gandhi at Dandi — breaking the salt law was a crime, and was also right.
How is social order different in villages and cities?
Village, town and city are told apart first. Then rural order, urban space, slums and gentrification are each explained with the book’s examples.
What else is in the file
- Chapter at a glance — a one-page mind map of the whole chapter
- A 29-term glossary of every definition the paper can ask for
- 18 questions solved with full model answers — board-pattern MCQs, passage-based and long answers (including all ten NCERT exercises), 1, 2, 4 and 6 markers
- A revision tracker to tick off each topic as read, practised and revised
The file
- Format: PDF, A4 — works on a phone and prints cleanly
- Length: 34 pages plus cover
- Delivery: instant download link after payment, plus a copy by email
- Free updates: if CBSE changes the syllabus or a correction goes in, the updated file is sent to you at no cost. You never pay twice for the same chapter.
By Aditi Ojha (Savvy Ma’am) — Founder and educator, The Savvy Humanities. Teaching Humanities on YouTube since 2023. These notes pair with the free chapter videos; QR codes inside the file link to them.
