Product Description

`Introducing Social Geographies' is a major new text offering a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to this important area of human geography. It presents a broad overview of social geography, clearly outlining the key theoretical and political positions, and making extensive use of examples to show how these frameworks can be used to analyse real social issues.



The book is ideal for undergraduates first encountering social geography and includes topic overviews, summaries of key points, critiques, boxed case studies and suggestions for further reading.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #165468 in Books
• Published on: 2001-08-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Educational Book Review
An ideal book for students first encountering social geography and a must for social geography courses.

Review
Good value for money; it is highly recommended as essential reading for students engaging with the central concerns of a modern social geography. (Submitted to Geography, April 2002 )

An ideal book for students first encountering social geography and a must for social geography courses. (Educational Book Review )

About the Author

Rachel Pain is Deputy Head of the Department of Geography, Durham University, UK.

Customer Reviews

Introducing Social Geographies: A Students Review
Introducing Social Geographies is a comprehensive book covering a range of topics integral to social geography. Aimed at the first/second year undergraduate, the structure of the book is one which is easy to follow, being split into (three) sections allowing easy digestion for any student who likes using his/her well invested books as beer mats. The book covers:

Introduction
Part 1 - Society, Material Life and Geography
- Work, class and social life
- The place of leisure
- Communities

Part 2 - Power Identity and Social Geography
- Race and ethnicity
- Geographies of Gender and Sexuality
- Age, generation and lifecourse
- Geographies of disability

Part 3 - Social Geography and Social Problems
- Society, nature and landscape
- Housing, space and society
- Crime, space and inequality
- Geographies of poverty

The book draws on the expertise of a range of Human Geography lectures interests, giving helpful and well illustrated case studies to back up the theories and concepts explained, emphasising the 'geographies' rather than 'geography'. An insightful and informative yet easy to follow text perfect for students being studying Social Geography(/ies), including topic overviews, summaries of key points, critiques and suggestions for further reading.

Introducing Social Geographies
A timeless classic! Easily the best social geography text around written in an engaging and accessible style with some great case study material. far better than Valentine's inferior text which goes by a similar title. A must for all undergraduate human geography students.

A great place to start in understanding human geography
This book offers a useful starting point in social geography, covering many engaging and interesting topics. It uses understandable language, but never dumbs anything down.

An excellent read for those starting off in geography.