Modern social geography: condition analysis, problems and prospects

Abstract

The article considers the relevance of development of social geography in accordance with changes in the social inquiry in global scale. A brief analysis of the development of native social geography in the measurements of global trends is given. An importance of the study of the social component of society and increasing role of social geography in this aspect is underlined. Modern social geography problems and new directions of social geographical researches are analyzed. The necessity of further development of the theoretical and methodological foundations of social geography, its concepts and terminology, improving research methods based on the theory of synergy and GIS technologies is substantiated.