中文摘要：

本文首先回顾了西方城市社会地理学发展的历程，然后评述了现代城市社会地理学研究的转变、特点和主要学派。依据对相关文献的考察，把西方现代城市社会地理学的研究领域分为四大部分：（1）城市空间结构的社会意义（2）城市社会空间分异模式（3）城市空间与制度框架（4）城市场景中的特殊行为，并对此进行了综述概括。最后就城市社会地理学在中国发展的意义和研究领域提出了建议。

英文摘要：

First, the paper retrospects the developing course of urban social geography in western countries, and then remarks the transformation of modern urban social geography and its theory basis. Based on some literatures, the paper divides modern urban social geography into four parts ： 1 ） the significance of sociospatial structure ; 2） the patterns of sociospatial differentiation; 3 ） urban space and institutional frameworks ; and 4） deviant behavior in urban settings. Finally, it puts forwards some suggestions on the development and study of urban social geography in China. The paper also thinks that comparing with ripe urban social geography study in western countries, our study fields should be extended. The reason and mechanism of urban problem have a necessarity to go further to excavate. Urban social geography must pay more attention to the research progress of sociology since the 1980s and strengthen the theory analysis in the aspects such as urban management, institution, structurization, and so on.