Which of the following is a sub-field of Social Geography?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Geography of Leisure
Option (1) Settlement Geography — Incorrect. Settlement geography is a field of its own, linked with urban and rural planning, not a sub-field of social geography.
Option (2) Geography of Leisure — Correct. It is one of the sub-fields of social geography, and its sister discipline is sociology. The other sub-fields of social geography are behavioural, social well-being, cultural, gender, historical and medical geography.
Option (3) Electoral Geography — Incorrect. It is a sub-field of political geography. It studies elections and voting over space, and its sister discipline is psephology.
Option (4) Military Geography — Incorrect. It is the other sub-field of political geography, with its interface with military science.
Note: A similar question was also asked in CUET (UG) 2023 on 18-06-2023 (Slot 3).
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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