9. the current stage in the development of economic and social geography plan

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9. THE CURRENT STAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL 
GEOGRAPHY 
Plan 
1.Development of geography in the period after independence 
2.Division of economic and social geography 
The disintegration of the former Union, the formation of new independent republics-
sovereign states-also led to some kind of change in economic geographical views. Especially in this 
regard, the influence of the previous "All-Union Division of Labor", highly centralized socialist 
planning, the emergence of forms of gross ownership and their deregulation, the transition to market 
relations was strong. 
During Independence, economic and social geography has been developing in a new 
political and economic context. First of all, it should be noted that the main ideas and concepts of 
this science: territorial division of labor, economic zoning, territorial production complexes, 
etc.have retained their scientific significance even now, they are required only by the “Communist” 
worldview, an approach free from the principles of planning a highly centralized totalitarian system. 
Now let's consider the structural structure of our science in the current period (see drawing 
2). Here, Economic and social geography is mainly divided into 3 blocks or parts, and the main of 
them-"Native Science", of course, is economic geography. 
It is known that the literal economic geography included industries directly related to nature, 
namely fishing, forestry and agriculture, mining. It then expanded and took the territorial aspects of 
the social sectors into its own research framework. But at this stage, economic geography will not 
be fully "socialized". Consequently, Block 2 performs the function of a binder, that is, representing 
the suffix "and" in the so-called Science. This section refers to the areas directly related to the 
population, its socio-economic life-activity. 
At the same time, it should be noted that "socio-economic geography", "social and economic 
geography" are not. In the first, the main emphasis is placed on sociality, that is, on the population, 
but its economic function is also not forgotten, and these two important fronts are seen in harmony 
with each other. 

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1-chizma. Iqtisodiy va ijtimoiy geografiya fanining ichki tuzilishi 
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY 
1. Economic geography 
 
1.1. Geography of Agriculture; 
1.2. Industrial geography; 
1.3. Geography of transport; 
1.4. Construction geography; 
1.5. Geography of foreign economic 
relations and B. 
2. Socio-economic geography 
 
2.1. Population geography; 
2.2. Geography of cities; 
2.3. Geography of rural areas; 
2.4. Geography of areas of service for 
the population, etc.G. 
3. Sosial geography 
 
3.1. Geography of recreation and 
tourism; 
3.2. Geography of religion; 
3.3. Geography of crime; 
3.4. Geography of Medicine; 
3.5. Geography of Science and 
research; 
3.6. Geography of behavior and B. 

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In fact, the population, man, is above all a social category. But he is also a creator, a 
consumer of material and spiritual wealth created by him. It is known that a person comes to the 
world to live, but to live it is necessary to work. Consequently, if there are 5 people in the family, 
only 2 of them can be economically active. However, these two people are also a consumer, that 
is, a social category, among all family members. 
The 3rd nchi block included disciplines that relate to a narrow sense of social, or rather 
social geography. They are areas related to the rest, treatment, beliefs, behaviors of people and, 
so to speak, the territorial aspects of their social life. 
In addition to the 3 blocks above, the fourth block has also been forming in recent years. 
It is a political geography that can include such as geopolitics, military geography, electoral 
(electoral) geography, geoconflictology, limology (science of borders). Such a further expansion 
of our science has caused it to be called "economic, social and political geography" in some 
countries (the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republics). It will be more 
correct to call all of them "social geography" in one word, referring to the possibility of the 
emergence of some other science of "geography" in the future. 
Questions and assignments. 
1. What is economic geographical knowledge for? 
2. What are the historical sources of economic geography and in which countries were 
they formed? 
3. What does economic geography have to do with statistics? 
4. What is the official name of the science of social geography at the present time and 
why is it called exactly that? 
5. Explain the structure of the science of economic and social geography. 
6. What is the difference between a social and a social geographer?