Social Distance of Hindu Students of College towards Other Religious Group: An Empirical Study on Sarguja District

Abstract

It is said that every individual regards his or her own culture as being superior to all other culture as inferior by virtue of being different from his or her own culture. Inspite of this all people shows relationship to other religious group. People feels different level of intimacy or social distance to different religious group. The Present investigation has been  undertaken to study the social distance of Hindu students towards other religious groups.60 Hindu student of Govt. College of the age range of 17-20 years were purposively and randomly selected. Social distance scale developed by Bogardus was used. on the basis of intimacy rank and kendalls coefficient of concordance the data were analysed.

The result show that Hindu students have highest intimacy to Christian and lowest intimacy to Yahudies. Also there is a strong agreement within all the subject. (Judges or Hindu students of college).