Social geography
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Social geography is the study of how society affects geographical features and how environmental factors affect society.
[edit] Case Study: India
Victims of their own historical success, Indians suffer from a rural economy. The reason? A high population density, poverty and strong echoes of the traditional caste system holds back any progress or urbanization. The fertile Ganges Valley with monsoon rain and river always supported a dense rural population. Rice is the stable crop. A settled traditional agriculture is practised on small plots, but tenants are exploited by landlords. There is a large mass of landless labourers. Poverty still acute, however, the emerging middle class peasantry benefited from the Green Revolution.
[edit] Areas of study
Questions in the field of social geography might include the examination of rural exodus or urban exodus or whether low-rise developments generate a different type of daily life than tower blocks. It deals also with problems of segregation and discrimination, socio-spatial variations in health, analysis of spatial crime patterns and others.
- For more details on this topic, see Urban studies.
In the field of community development (or community economic development), the importance of place has been a focal point for sociologists to determine what effects geography may have on a local community's cohesiveness and the sense of community. Studies in community psychology suggest that where we are many times has an effect on who we are.[1]
- For more details on this topic, see Community of place.
[edit] See also
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| Sub-Fields | Cultural geography · Development geography · Economic geography · Historical geography · Language geography · Marketing geography · Health geography · Military geography · Political geography · Population geography · Social geography · Strategic geography · Time geography · Urban geography |
| Approaches | Behavioral geography · Cultural Theory · Feminist geography · Marxism · Modernism (Structuralism · Semiotics) · Postmodernism (Post-structuralism · Deconstruction) |
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