Social and Cultural Geography

41.1 Nature, scope and content of social Geography; Ethnicity, tribe, dialect, language, caste and religion. 

41.2 Social structure and processes, social exclusion, geographies of social well-being with special reference to India.

41.3 Cultural Geography: Definition, scope and nature. Race ,religion, language as cultural attributes with special reference to India, North-South, social -cultural divide. 

41.4 World cultural Realms, Morphology of cultural landscape (Carl O Sauer) and cultural diversity. Cities as melting pot of culture. Traditional folk culture- crisis and transformation

 41.5 Cultural processes: Diffusion, acculturation, assimilation and cultural pluralism