A Study of the Social Distance of Santal Students of First Generation Learner from Non-Santal Students of West Bengal

Santal is an Indian tribe. Almost all of the families of this tribe are very poor and their literacy rate is very low. They are much neglected to all the other caste people. The researcher takes a very little step to investigate the social distance of the santal students and non-santal students from six groups of students indicated by Group-1, Group-2, Group-3, Group-4, Group-5 and Group-6. The social distance of the santal and non-santal students from these six respondent groups are measured by Bogardus Social Distance Scale and the difference of the social distance of santal and non-santal students from the six respondent groups are studied. The study shows that the mean social distance of the santal students from Group-1, Group-2, Group-5 and Group-6 are sufficiently higher than that of the non-santal students and the social distance of the santal students is slightly higher than that of the non-santal students from Group-3 and Group-4. The significance of the differences is tested by t-test and it is seen that in all the cases the differences are significant at 1% level of significance.