Social Geography – UGC NET – Solved PYQs

Covered Topics: Social Structure & Processes, Social well-being and Quality of Life, Social Exclusion, Spatial Distribution of Social Groups in India (Tribe, Caste, Religion and Language), Environment and Human Health, Diseases Ecology, Nutritional Status: (etiological conditions, classification and spatial and seasonal distributional patterns with special reference to India), Health Care Planning & Policies in India, Medical Tourism in India.

1. Which of the following is not true about welfare geography? (SEPT 2013)

(1) It studies the question of who gets what, where and how
(2) It is much concerned about spatial distribution of poverty, resources and civic amenities
(3) It was part of the reaction against positivism in geography
(4) It seeks to change the present economic and political setup

2. Match the List I with List II identifying the relation. (SEPT 2013)

Codes:

(1) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
(2) A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II
(3) A-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III
(4) A-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II

3. To which racial group do the Eskimos belong? (DEC 2013)

(1) Negroids
(2) Mongoloids
(3) Caucasoids
(4) Australoids

4. Which one of the following tribes does not correctly match? (DEC 2013)

(1) Batwa – Congo Basin
(2) Ruwala – Central Iran
(3) Inuit – Canada
(4) Yukagir – Siberia

5. Which one of the following states has recorded the lowest Human Development Index? (DEC 2013)

(1) Bihar
(2) Himachal Pradesh
(3) Punjab
(4) Haryana

6. The paradoxical situation of co-existence of patrilineal society and the dominating position of women is characteristic of: (JUNE 2014)

(1) Khasi tribe
(2) Bhil tribe
(3) Gond tribe
(4) Tharu tribe

7. Which one of the following languages belongs to the Semito-Hamitic linguistic family? (JUNE 2014)

(1) Gondi
(2) Hebrew
(3) Spanish
(4) Dutch

8. Welfare approach in geographic studies emphasizes spatial variation in: (JUNE 2014)

(1) Socio-economic development
(2) Public–private partnership in development
(3) Infrastructural development
(4) Quality of life

9. Both Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia and Lagos in Nigeria are examples of: (DEC 2014)

(1) Primate cities
(2) World cities
(3) Enclaves
(4) Edge cities

10. Given below are two statements, Assertion (A) and Reason (R). (DEC 2014)

Assertion (A): There is hardly any pure race even in the remotest and isolated areas of the world.

Reason (R): All human beings comprise a single species; they manifest differences in certain physical traits and, being from one species, all members are mutually fertile.

Codes:

(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true

11. Match List I with List II. (DEC 2014)

Codes:

(1) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
(2) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
(3) A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
(4) A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II