Geographical Information Systems application in the study of Rural Sociology

The science of sociology, is evaluating the transforming of person to society and the wholistic movements of the society, and is investigating the notions that keeps the mechanism up and the relation of these notions with eachother. To have a balanced and sustainable economy, which is behind all politic means and factors including development strategies and investment policies of a country, depends on a wholistic development. One of the elements of wholistic development is Rural Development works. To have a successful work on the rural areas, it is important to analyse the “Rural Sociology” very good and to use the technology supported applications in these analysis. In this context, by using the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) while identifying the area, identifying route and identifying re-arranging points at rural settlements is possible, observing and identifying the agricultural investments and the projections in years of these investments can be realized. As a result, in this study, how the sociology planning should be done by the integration of technology based on geographical information systems and to which extend the rural social can be affected as a result of these studies has been shown. In this study, the great benefits of the use of contemporary technology and usage planning has been explained.