711-0611/01 – Social and economic geography (SEG)
| Gurantor department | Department of Social Sciences | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | PhDr. Anna Papřoková, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | PhDr. Anna Papřoková, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 4 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2002/2003 | Year of cancellation | 2010/2011 |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Analyzing, identifying, reassessing and qualified designing of the change of geo-spatial and socially economic phenomena and processes.
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Summary
The load-bearing portion of this subject is the world economy geography and the linked-up social and economic, environmental, demographic und town-planning issues and viewpoints. On the basis of such observations it is possible to analyze and influence with minimum negative impacts the area bound organization of social and economic phenomena and processes.
Compulsory literature:
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
Recommended literature:
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
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
test
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oral examination
E-learning
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Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
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.
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