南京大学社会地理学发展与展望

Review on the Social Geography of Nanjing University

南京大学是中国地理学教育和研究的重要基地,通过对南京大学社会地理学研究成果的梳理,把握中国社会地理学发展的基本脉络,为发展具有中国特色的社会地理学提供有益借鉴。南京大学社会地理学的发展紧跟国际社会地理学的研究热点,具有强烈的学科开拓性与创新性,一直以来其成为引领中国社会地理学,特别是城市社会地理学研究的重要力量。初期研究成果主要体现在对社会地理学性质与内容的研究上,近期的主要研究领域包括人口、城市社会地理学、乡村社会地理学及相关社会问题的研究。研究内容涉及人口分布规律、人口统计与表达方法、流动人口、女性地理学、城市空间、社会空间分异、城市管治、城市贫困、乡村经济、乡村城市化、乡村聚落、乡村土地利用以及信息社会的地理学等多个方面。处于社会转型期的中国迫切需要地理研究者对具有空间地域特征的社会现象进行分析和归纳,吸收国外社会地理学的理论和方法,结合中国的社会实际,逐步建立中国式的社会地理学,这是中国社会地理学发展的宏观背景。

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.