Universitatea”Babeş-Bolyai” Cluj-Napoca, Facultatea de Geografie,
str. Clinicilor 5-7, 400006, Cluj-Napoca, România
ABSTRACT. – The Social Geography – from Apogee to Crisis and to the Social Geographies of the 21 st Century - The Continuos Shifting of its Focus and of its Area of Interest. Social geography has probably been the most dynamic and one of the most controversial of the human geography’s domains of thematic interests, and the echoes of these attributes are still heard today. Considering these aspects, we believe that summarizing the conceptualizations of its fields of interest and the sphere of its matters of concern is necessary – at least in the context of the present Romanian geographical research – both because of the domain’s epistemological particularities and because of the propitious scientific moment we experience. Substantially simplifying, the main interest themes which have emerged and developed in the field of research, have followed two types of trajectories. One of the patterns was represented by the following stadiality: emergence – the pinnacle of the interest period and the period with the most papers written and published – the critics’ apogee – the fall into abeyance, but there are rarely strong come-backs. The other dynamics alternative resides in the following pattern: emergence – apogee – intensified diversification of the sphere of methodology and matters of concern – the separation of social geography from the body of human geography as an independent subdivision.
Cuvinte cheie: geografie socială, fenomene sociale, dinamică, concept.
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