关键词: 社会地理学, 南京大学, 城市社会地理学, 乡村社会地理学

Abstract:

The geography of Nanjing University is one of the important basis for geography education and research in China. The study on the achievements of the social geography in Nanjing University can outline the basic context of the development of Chinese social geography, and then provide some useful references to the social geography of the development Chinese characteristics. The development of the social geography of Nanjing University follows the research focus of the international social geography, with a strong sense of discipline pioneering and innovative, and it has become a leading part of social geography, in particular its important research efforts to the study of urban social geography. The initial research results is in the fields of the concept and content of the social geography. Recently research interests include population, urban geography, rural geography and the study of related social problems. The study fields include population distribution, demographics and expression, women, geography, urban space, differentiation of social space, urban governance, urban poverty, rural economy, rural urbanization, rural settlements, rural land use and the geography of information society. The social geography of China is gradually maturing, and the social factors are more important than beforein the impact on the economic development, so there is an urgent need to analyze these social phenomena with the features of space of places. In the social transformation, China urgently needs geographical researchers to analyze and summarize the social phenomenon with the features of spatial geography, absorb theories and methods from foreign social geography, combine with Chinese social reality and establish gradually the Chinese social geography, which is the macro background of the development of Chinese social geography.

Key words: social geography, Nanjing University, urban social geography, rural social geography