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Ukončeno v akademickém roce 2010/2011

Social and economic geography

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 711-0611/01
Abbreviation SEG
Course title Social and economic geography
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Social Sciences
Course coordinator PhDr. Anna Papřoková, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

1.The subject of the socially economic geography (further SEG only). Development hereof, inter-disciplinary nature hereof, approaches and targets of the investigation.
2.Methodology. Specific features of the methods of SEG.
3.Complexity of the space. Natural, cultural and economical factors.
4. State as the subject of SEG study. Basic characteristics (territory, population, politically- economic system, method of the economy organisation ).
5. Status and possibilities of human resources Lay-outof the world population and its dynamics. . Indicators of human development.
6. Reproduction behavior and social institutions. State, matrimony, , family, socal politics.
7. Selected structural features of the population and their connections. . Demographic structure, age, races, religiosity, economic activity.
8. Influence of settlement on the spatial, industrial, socially-economic and life conditions. Development of towns. .
9. Social layers. Levels of living and life styles. Social exclusion.
10. Effect of social-economic factors upon the deployment of industries and problems of modern society.
11. General features of the geography of the world economy. Economic organisation, natural resources, economical growth. t.
12. World system analysis. Europe in the social and economic survey (industrialization e, services, unions). Development of the North American and Asia-Pacific areas, , developing countries.
13. Position of the Czech Republic in the world economy.
14. World economics in geo-spatial connections. Integration and globalization processes.

Povinná literatura

Knox, P., Agnew, J. (1989). The Geography of the World Economy.London, New York: Edward Arnold
Fellmann, J.,Getis, A., Getis, J. (1992). Human Geography (Landscapes of Human Activites). Dubuque:Wm.C.Brown Publishers

Doporučená literatura

Fingleton,B.edited (c2007).New directions in economic
geography. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar
Mackinnon, D. (2007). An introduction to economic geography: globalization, uneven development and place.(Danny Mackinnon and Andrew Cumbers).
Harlow : Pearson Prentice Hall
Glassner, M. I. (1993). Political Geography. New York, Singapore: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.,
Neil, C. M., Kelly P. F.and Yeung H.W.C.(2007). Economic
geography a contemporary introduction. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub