Socioeconomic Geography Research Articles

Contexts of childhood and play: Exploring parental perceptions

The article explores cross-cultural notions of play in childhood among parents based on empirical investigations in two economically diverse residential areas in a metropolis in India. All parents had an unquestionable belief in an epistemic grounding of play in children’s lives. However, parents begin to question play timings and children’s engagement with play when faced with the contemporary demands of schooling which are enmeshed in a childhood dominated by academic achievement, suppressing parents’ intuitive leanings towards play. The school-led social environment regulates play and shapes notions of childhood, forcing parents to socialize children for school performance and ‘print expertise’. Social class variations are more an outcome of socioeconomic geographies and not education-based awareness only. The penetrating advent of technology in children’s lives renders gadgets as treasured play objects among certain social groups replacing the make-believe games of yesteryear.

On the relativity of indicators and concepts in socioeconomic geography

This paper is an attempt to evaluate the relativity of some methodological approaches, research tools, and concepts of modern socioeconomic geography. It looks at various types of relativism, in particular, indicator-based, conceptual-terminological, chronological, chorologic, and cartographic relativism. It points out that relativism is intrinsic to the very object of study of socioeconomic geography, i.e., the spatial organization of society.

Identifying Functional Regions in Australia Using Hierarchical Aggregation Techniques

AbstractThis paper continues our work focused on developing a new socio‐economic geography for Australia such that the chosen spatial aggregation of data is based on an analysis of economic behaviour. The underlying hypothesis is that the development of a geographical classification based on underlying economic behaviour will provide new insights into critical issues of regional performance, including unemployment differentials, the impact of industry, infrastructure and changes in local public expenditure on local labour markets. As a precursor to detailed work on the 2006 Census of Population and Housing data, we establish the proof of concept in this paper of the Intramax methodology using 2001 Journey‐to‐Work data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) for the state of New South Wales. The functional regionalisation generated by the Intramax method is then tested using ABS labour force data. We compare 2001 ABS Census of Population and Housing data aggregated by the ABS labour force regions to the same data aggregated using our functional regions. The results demonstrate the potential value of this technique for the development of a new geography.

Preface to the Proceedings of the International Conference on Trends and Perspectives in Linear Statistical Inference LINSTAT’2008 in Celebration of Tadeusz Caliński’s 80th Birthday

The conference LINSTAT’2008 was held at the Mathematical Research and Conference Center of the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Bedlewo, Poland, on April 21–25. The conference was organized and supported by Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center, Committee of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management of the AdamMickiewicz University, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Methods of the Poznan University of Life Sciences, Institute of Plant Genetics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Econometrics of the University of Zielona Gora, Polish Biometric Society, and Polish Mathematical Society, with sponsoring by GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals. The conference was endorsed by the Council of Statistics of the Committee of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Science as a 34th conference in the series “Mathematical Statistics”. The International Scientific Committee comprised Augustyn Markiewicz (Poland; chair), Joao T. Mexia (Portugal), Simo Puntanen (Finland), Gotz Trenkler (Germany), Dietrich von Rosen (Sweden), and Roman Zmyślony (Poland). The Local Organizing Committee was chaired by Katarzyna Filipiak, and included Tomasz Kossowski, Augustyn Markiewicz (vice-chair), Marcin Przystalski, Agnieszka Suchocka, and Waldemar Wolynski. The aim of this conference was to bring together researchers sharing an interest in a variety of aspects of statistics and its applications and offer them a possibility to discuss current developments in these subjects.

A Data-Mining Approach for Investigating Social and Economic Geographical Dynamics of $\beta$-Thalassemia's Spread

Beta-thalassemia is an anemic genetic disorder that remains a major global health issue, especially in the globalized era where public health, economics, and education are tightly interwoven. Previous studies have examined the disease's rate and heredity. This study analyzed beta-thalassemia's socioeconomic geography and how it affects the afflicted population. We processed survey data and performed data mining using self-organizing maps to identify underlying data structure. We hypothesized that certain variables mark subgroups within the affected population and we aimed at identifying these subgroups and used a correlation-based measure to assess the variable's importance to the subgroup's distinction. The population's education level was one of the major factors that divided it into different subgroups. Our study showed that recurring patterns of specific variables separated the affected population into disparate subgroups based on their response to questionnaires. Future studies can use such tools to delve deeper into how other variables (e.g. socioeconomic and genomic) can identify subgroups within larger affected populations.

Simulation of Changes of The Warsaw Urban Area 1969-2023 (Application of Cellular Automata)

Abstract It is possible to make analyses within the field of GIS applying cellular automata. One of the purposes of socio-economic geography is indirect understanding of the phenomenon by analyzing spatial patterns and inferring spatio-temporal processes looking rather for local hotspots. The cellular automata are the tool both for spatio-temporal inferring based on local conditions and data visualization. The evidence is the case study of spatial simulation of Warsaw Urban Area (Poland). The author verifies the hypothesis that the present layout and extent of the Warsaw agglomeration determines further directions of the city’s spatial development. To this end, he employs a method based on cellular automata theory.

Dreams, Bricks, and Bodies: Mapping ‘Neglected Spatialities’ in African Cape Town

This paper deploys several propositions from Amin and Thrift's recent theoretical work to map emerging geographies of the postapartheid city. Using Cape Town as a case study, the focus is on urban planning and informal sector retailing. After a discussion of the informal food sector, three parameters of urban space that are often apprehended separately are held together: an imagined geography of planning for the efficient and postapartheid city (‘dreams’); a material geography of marketplaces for the developmental transformation of informal retailing (‘bricks’); and a socioeconomic geography of what local officials call “pre-entrepreneurs” (‘bodies’). The author argues that these three geographical features of the postapartheid city are of an emerging and mutually dependent piece; that is to say, they are cocreating each other across scales and domains of reality. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of the broader implications for understanding the prospects of the postapartheid city.

Football in France: a cultural history

Contents List of Tables vii Acknowledgements ix Glossary xi 1 Introduction: Studying French Football 1 2 Establishing Football in the French National Consciousness 19 3 Towns and Cities: a Socio-economic Geography of French Football Clubs 47 4 Fans: a Sociology of French Club Football 77 5 Coaches: Building the Successes of French Teams 115 6 Players: 'les Bleus' and French National Identity 150 7 Television: Football as Spectacle and Commodity 179 8 Chairmen: Business, Politics, and Corruption 196 9 Conclusions: French Exceptionalism vs. Commodification 224 Appendix 244 Bibliography 247 Index

Equity Issues in Dental Health Care Services in Thailand

Thailand's dental health care system and provisions for public services are described. The Thai Ministry of Public Health has sought to pursue the goal of oral health for all by creating greater equity in opportunities for dental care. Severely disadvantaged Thais are able to seek free treatment, and a subsidized health card system offers medical and dental care to those able to purchase it. Despite these efforts, inequities related to socio-economic status and geography remain. The growth of the private sector has contributed to inequities by drawing dentists away from the public sector. Most dentists wish to work in the more lucrative private sector and to offer curative treatment. The organisational structure of the dental health system in Thailand and certain attitudes of the dental profession have also worked against equity, despite statements of support for equity in the country's Constitution and on the part of policy makers. More research is needed on equity in dental care in Thailand, and ways to reduce shortages of dentists in the public sector and in rural areas need to be explored. The most effective way of promoting equity in dental health care in Thailand is through reinforcing primary dental care with its emphasis upon education and prevention.

The information revolution in geography

International Social Science JournalVolume 48, Issue 150 p. 477-492 The information revolution in geography Vladimir S. Tikunov, Vladimir S. Tikunov Vladimir Sergeevitch Tikunov is Professor of Cartography and Geoinformatics at the Lomonosov University, Moscow 119899, Russia, e-mail tikunov@env.geogr.msu.su. His scientific interests include geographical information systems (GIS), cartography and socioeconomic geography. His most recent monograph is Geoinformatics (1993) in collaboration with A. V. Koshkarev. He is a member of the GIS Commission of the International Geographical Union, and a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.Search for more papers by this author Vladimir S. Tikunov, Vladimir S. Tikunov Vladimir Sergeevitch Tikunov is Professor of Cartography and Geoinformatics at the Lomonosov University, Moscow 119899, Russia, e-mail tikunov@env.geogr.msu.su. His scientific interests include geographical information systems (GIS), cartography and socioeconomic geography. His most recent monograph is Geoinformatics (1993) in collaboration with A. V. Koshkarev. He is a member of the GIS Commission of the International Geographical Union, and a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.Search for more papers by this author First published: December 1996 https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2451.00050Citations: 1 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume48, Issue150December 1996Pages 477-492 RelatedInformation

Rediscovering Spatial Inequality in Europe: Building Blocks for an Appropriate ‘Regulationist’ Analytical Framework

Regulation theory is of Marxian inspiration, has been strongly influenced by historical analysis and institutionalism, and can be applied to the study of accumulation in and regulation of societies in all eras, of capitalism. But these features of the theory have not prevented many geographers from applying it primarily to the study of the transition from Fordism to post-Fordism. Moreover, many of them have narrowed the research agenda even more by focusing on the feasibility of fashionable but economistic ‘flex spec prof high-tech’ production models for the development strategies of privileged areas. Research efforts have drifted away from the study of ‘undefended cities and regions’. This evolution is, I believe, all the more deplorable given the creation of the Single European Market, with its permissive social charter and the spatially biased reorganization of the structural funds of the Commission of the European Communities. In this paper a methodological viewpoint is defended which contends that progress in the social sciences can be accomplished only through the confrontation of experience and action-orientated research needs with existing theoretical frameworks capable of leading the research in the right direction. Then, an examination is made of the research needs of agents (policymakers, planners, academics, and so on) involved in action which is orientated towards achieving greater intraspatial and interspatial equality in Europe. The extent to which regulation theory is capable of guiding such research, given the ideological influences as well as theoretical refinements it has undergone, is discussed, and it is concluded that further improvements to regulation theory could make it more appropriate for action-orientated research in socioeconomic geography. This conclusion is illustrated for the application of the analysis of socioeconomic development in depressed areas.

1994年度秋季学術大会シンポジウム 空間編成論と日本の社会・経済地理学―D.ハーヴェイの理論を中心に―

1994年度秋季学術大会シンポジウム 空間編成論と日本の社会・経済地理学―D.ハーヴェイの理論を中心に―

Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Planning, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

The spatial structure of the results of the 1990 presidential election in Poland—the first democratic election in the postwar period—is described. This is not a mere description of the voter turnout and the support for the particular candidates, but also includes definitions of multivariate election options in particular voivodeships. An attempt is also made to determine the effect of some factors on voter attitudes. In this way, the first political map of Poland has been drawn which will now be modified by political, social, and especially economic developments, and which will go into a second edition during the next parliamentary elections. In the study use was made of multivariate regression analysis and principal components analysis.

Some Problems of Polish Socio-economic Geography in the Eighties

The paper treats of the present state and the prospects of the Polish socioeconomic geography from the viewpoint of the whole branch as well as of some sub-branches, such as the geography of settlements and the geography of population. The author is aware of the fact that not all problems of the development of this branch in the Eighties and are worth while considering the future form of the socioeconomic geography.

日本における社会経済的交通地理学

日本における社会経済的交通地理学

Social Change and the Chinese in Singapore: A Socio-Economic Geography With Special Reference to Bāng Structure. By Cheng Lim-Keak. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1985. Pp. xix, 235. Tables, Figures, Plates, Paperback.

Social Change and the Chinese in Singapore: A Socio-Economic Geography With Special Reference to Bāng Structure. By Cheng Lim-Keak. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1985. Pp. xix, 235. Tables, Figures, Plates, Paperback. - Volume 18 Issue 1

Self-organizing systems and the ‘laws of socio-economic geography’

An extension of the dynamic intra-urban model developed by the authors over recent years is presented. These improvements were carried out as a part of a projevt to model the spatial evolution of Belgium, and this application is briefly discussed. However tha main thrust of the paper is to show how our model generalises many of the well known ‘economic/geographic laws’ concerning location, socio-economic structures and the decay with distance of spatial interactions (e.g. Christaller, Weber, Reilly, Burgess, etc.). Indeed we show how the initially simple considerations, embodied in such laws, when put in a dynamic, non-linear context of mutual interactions, lead through the self-organization of the system to patterns characterised by anomalies and complexities of the real world. Perhaps in this way, our approach reveals the underlying regularities (‘laws’) of the system and at the same time the importance of time and evolution, in a proper understanding of the world around us.

Social Change and the Chinese in Singapore. A Socio-Economic Geography With Special Reference to Bang Structure.

Social Change and the Chinese in Singapore. A Socio-Economic Geography With Special Reference to Bang Structure.

Soviet Economic Geography in the 1970's

Major changes have occurred in Soviet economic geography during the 1970's. This field, which was once concerned almost solely with the distribution of production, considered in light of the concepts of socio-economic geography, has now enlarged its field of study to include developing trends in problems of economy, socialization and ecology.A recent trend in Soviet geography in general, including physical geography, has been to place a great deal of emphasis upon constructive geography, or geography of prediction. This view has tended to accelerate the unification of Soviet physical and socio-economic geography.

The geography of enterprises in the system of socio-economic geography

The geography of enterprises in the system of socio-economic geography