Which of the following is NOT a sub-field of Social Geography?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Electoral Geography
Option (1) Geography of Leisure — A sub-field of social geography (Incorrect). It studies how people use their free time and links with sociology.
Option (2) Historical Geography — A sub-field of social geography (Incorrect). It studies the geography of past times and links with history.
Option (3) Medical Geography — A sub-field of social geography (Incorrect). It studies the spread of diseases and health over space, and links with epidemiology.
Option (4) Electoral Geography — Not a sub-field of social geography (Correct). It is a sub-field of political geography. It studies elections and voting patterns over space, and its sister discipline is psephology.
NCERT (2025-26): “Fields and Sub-fields of Human Geography … Human geography, as you have seen, attempts to explain the relationship between all elements of human life and the space they occur over. Thus, human geography assumes a highly inter-disciplinary nature. It develops close interface with other sister disciplines in social sciences in order to understand and explain human elements on the surface of the earth. With the expansion of knowledge, new sub-fields emerge and it has also happened to human geography. Let us examine these fields and sub-fields of Human Geography (Table 1.2).”
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