GEOG 250 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Uncertainty Principle, Urban Studies, Historic Preservation
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Acquaintance with cities comes from firsthand experience and sensory perception -- sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell. Knowledge about cities comes from abstract, logical reasoning. Most urban scholars are now suspicious of the clear distinction between. In the middle years of the twentieth century, the social sciences became quite obsessed with rational quantification and systematic theories. The heisenberg uncertainty principle: it is not possible to observe something without changing it in some way. Despite its limitations, rational abstraction remains important, because: it has political legitimacy, it helps build common ground through shared languages and methods, it guards against relativism, it can be balanced and integrated with subjective knowledge and. It is possible to integrate the two paths, by using mixed methods to highlight different aspects of the urban experience. Formal boundaries between disciplines emerged about two hundred years ago in. Europe, in the context of systems of formal education, the rise of the nation- state, and the growth of industrial society.
