GEOG 1HB3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Ethnocentrism, Ethnography, Thematic Map
17 Jan 2017
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Philosophical diversity of contemporary human geography re ects the diversity of our subject matter, namely, human behaviour in a spacial context. We draw on a wide variety of concepts and methods. Most human geographers before the 1950"s ignored philosophical issues and simply conducted research that was considered appropriate" in the light of the discipline"s historical development. Can be argued that there was an implicit philosophy in regional and cultural work -this philosophy was know as empiricism. Empiricism typically sees knowledge acquisition as an ongoing process of verifying and correcting factual statements. An empiricist approach allows the facts to speak for themselves. 3. the speci c method that positivism sees as appropriate for all sciences, physical and human is known as scienti c method (theory-hypothesis-law that can be veri ed by real world facts) Controversial when it came out because it directly challenged the accepted theory at the time (regional approach)
