Social Geography

• The place of social geography within geography and the working fields. Terminology and methods.
• Development of social geography: different schools.
• Social stratification: classes, strata, groups and communities.
• Formation of social groups: social, local and interest conditionality.
• Social space: forms, characteristics, structure and functions of space. The attitudes of people to space.
• Human collective and spatial behavior.
• Basic functions (living, work, care, education, recreation, communication, social life, political engagement) and their spatial and social effects.
• Time-space organization of people and action range of social groups.
• Intra-group and inter-group relations and processes.
• Socio-geographical transformation (the case of Slovenia).

• Del Casino, V. J., 2009. Social Geography. A Critical Introduction Willey-Backwell, Chicester. COBISS.SI-ID – 45262946
• Drozg, V., 2020. Vpogled v socialno geografijo, Univerzitetna založba v Mariboru, Maribor. COBISS.SI-ID – 33590275
• Glasze, G., Mattisek, A. (eds.), 2009. Handbuch Diskurs und Raum. Theorien und Methoden für die Human geographie sowie die Sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Raumforschung. Beilefeld, Transcript,. COBISS.SI-ID – 40366690
• Holloway, L., Hubbard, P., 2001. People and Place. The extraordinary geographies of everyday life. Prentice Hall, Harlow. COBISS.SI-ID – 16750434
• Mlinar, Z., 2008. Prostorsko-časovna organizacija bivanja. Založba FDV, Ljubljana. COBISS.SI-ID – 242478080
• Pain, R., 2001. Introducing Social Geographies. Arnold, London. COBISS.SI-ID – 16754530
• Werlen, B., 1993. Society, Action and Space. An alternative Human Geography. Routledge, London. COBISS.SI-ID – 3394056
• Zupančič, J., 2017. Socialna geografija. Človek, prostor in čas, Znanstvena založba FF UL, Ljubljana. COBISS.SI-ID – 293805568

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