Social and Cultural Geography
Cultural Geography: Definition, scope and nature. Race
by Dr. Nilanjana Das Chatterjee, Department of Geography , Vidyasagar University.
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41.1 Nature, scope and content of social Geography; Ethnicity, tribe, dialect, language, caste and religion.
41.2 Social structure and processes, social exclusion, geographies of social well-being with special reference to India.
41.3 Cultural Geography: Definition, scope and nature. Race ,religion, language as cultural attributes with special reference to India, North-South, social -cultural divide.
41.4 World cultural Realms, Morphology of cultural landscape (Carl O Sauer) and cultural diversity. Cities as melting pot of culture. Traditional folk culture- crisis and transformation
41.5 Cultural processes: Diffusion, acculturation, assimilation and cultural pluralism