WBCHSE HS Sociology case studies
WBCHSE HS Sociology · Put your knowledge to work in context.
WBCHSE HS Sociology is the elective subject offered by the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education for Class XI–XII students in the state's higher secondary stream. It suits learners who want a disciplined, descriptive social science: one that asks them to define concepts precisely, compare institutions across societies, and apply ideas to Indian realities such as caste, tribe, class, gender and urbanisation. The WBCHSE HS Sociology case studies are 5 cases and about 3,920 words.
1The Teacher from the Fisher Colony
Rupali, 24, is the first person in her family to finish school. Her father owns two boats in a fishing village in Purba Medinipur and earns between ₹90,000 and ₹1,40,000 a year, almost all of it in three monsoon months; her mother has never been to school.
620 words, about 3 min2Eighteen Days, Six Hundred and Forty Students
Ananya, a Class XII student in a Kolkata school, has 18 days to complete her WBCHSE project on 'smartphone use at night and daytime sleepiness' among students of Classes XI and XII. The school has 640 such students across Science, Commerce and Arts.
841 words, about 4 min3After the Mill Gate Closed
For 78 years a jute mill on the Hooghly ran the town around it: 1,200 permanent workers, 2,300 contract workers, a mill hospital, a club, a school and a water line. Three generations of some families had never worked anywhere else.
844 words, about 4 min4The Felicitation on the Temple Ground
In a village in Nadia, a 17-year-old from a Bagdi (Scheduled Caste) household has topped the district in the Higher Secondary examination. Her father is a sharecropper on 1.2 bighas; her mother works as a domestic help in the nearby town.
821 words, about 4 min5Krishnapur Wants to Stay a Village
Krishnapur, a gram panchayat in North 24 Parganas, had 4,600 people in the 2011 Census. By the 2025 voter list it has about 7,800.
794 words, about 4 min