SOCIAL AND CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY

Paper Code: 
GEO 223
Credits: 
5
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Outcomes (COs)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

On completion of this course, the students will be able to:

CO1: students will know the relevance of social geography and its evolution.

CO2:  students will acquire how the geographical factors impact geography as well as the concept of unity in diversity.

CO3: after studying this they can evaluate the concepts of social and cultural factors of diversity and terms ethnicity, tribes and castes.

CO4: . students will acknowledge the modernization and urbanization also the social transformation of cultural landscape. 

CO5: Emerging issues and conflicts in current time and social well beings, quality of life kinds of issues will understand by the student.

Approach in teaching:  Interactive lectures, discussion, Tutorials, reading assignments, demonstration Learning activities for the students :

Self-learning assignments, effective questions, seminar presentation.

 

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

12.00
  • Nature, Scope and Evolution of Social Geography
  • Social Geography in the Realm of Social Sciences
  • Evolution of Social Geography in India, Contemporary Relevance of Social Geography

 

12.00
  • Geography and Social Space with special reference to India.
  • Geographical Factors in Social Formations.
  • Evolution of Regions of Various Types in India.
  • Unity in Diversity        

 

12.00
  • Social and Cultural Factors of Diversity and Region Formation in India
  • Ethnicity
  • Tribes and Castes
  • Religion and Belief Systems
  • Languages

 

12.00

Changing Dimension in Social Geography:

-                     Modernization

-                     Urbanization

•      Social Identity on the basis of Class.

•      Identity in Urban Space: Power and Space.

•      Social Transformation and Changing Physical and Cultural Landscapes.

Mobility and Changing Identities

12.00

Emerging Issues and Trends in Social Geography:        

  • Social Geographies of Inclusion and Exclusion
  • Slums
  • Communal Conflicts and Crime Concept of Social Well-Being:
  • Well-being and Gross National Happiness
  • Quality of Life
  • Human Development Index
  • Issues of Health, Education and Gender
  • Policy and Planning of Social Development in India .

 

Essential Readings: 
  • Mandal, R.B :Statistics for Geographers and Social Scientists (New Delhi : Concept Publishing Company, 2014)
  • Dutt, Ashok, K: Facets of Social Geography : International and Indian Perspectives (Delhi: Foundation Books, 2012)
  • Saxena; M.H.: Indian and world Geography: Physical, Social and Economic Study (Rawat Publications, 2016)
  • Mohanthy, G.S,: Social & Cultural Geography (Delhi : Isha Books, 2005)
  • Mehtani, Subhah, Sinha, Amarjit : Social Geography (New Delhi, Common Wealth Publishers, 2010)
  • Casino, VincentJ. Del: Social Geography (USA : Wiley-Blackwell,2009)

 

 

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023