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Social geography studies how society affects geographical features and how environmental factors affect society.
Case Study: India
Victims of their own historical success, Indians suffer from a rural economy. The reason? A high population density, poverty and strong traditional caste system holds back any progress or urbanisation. 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. //i16.photobucket.com/albums/b37/gummybear89/DSC00331.jpg
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.
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.*
See also
Human geography | Branches of sociology
Sozialgeographie | Geografía social | Socijalna geografija | 社会地理学 | Sociale geografie | Geografia społeczna
"Social geography"