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Jan 1, 2015 · Geography is a social discipline that, at its origin, showed an epistemological and ontological basis supported by logical positivism, providing predictions through the creation of laws and theories. However, we find disciplinary relevant antecedents in the use of...
- 1 Principles of Geography Science
- 2 The Development of Geography Views
- 3 Epistemology of Geography Science
In the study of geography science, like other sciences, the underlying principles are used which are called geography principles. This principle serves as the basis for description, assessment, disclosure of geographic factors, variables and factors. Principles can be considered as “souls” when we approach the object we are studying. According to N...
To obtain a chronological picture of the development of geographical views, it is felt necessary to elaborate a little on the history of geographic views from century to century (Lilley 2011), i.e., (1) classical geographical views; (2) geographic views in the middle ages and renaissance; (3) modern geographic view; (4) geographical view of the lat...
Epistemology is a branch of philosophy that emphasizes the study of how to get knowledge correctly. In this case, the epistemology aspect in geography science is the same as other scientific clusters, i.e., using inductive and deductive methods. It aims to obtain comprehensive data on the study of geosphere phenomena. Also, the epistemology of geog...
- Dedi Hermon
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Jan 10, 2020 · Geography is an academic discipline and subject of study that explores—and promotes critical thinking about—how the world is organized, the environments and patterns that exist on the ground or that humans create in their minds, the interconnections that exist between the physical and human environment, and the nature of places and regions.
- Corey Johnson, Marie Price, Glen MacDonald, William G. Moseley, Dawn Wright, Alexander B. Murphy
- 2018
R. Adam Dastrup. Most individuals define geography as a field of study that deals with maps, yet this definition is only partially correct. A better definition of geography may be the study of natural and human-constructed phenomena relative to a spatial dimension.
Geography's ways of looking at the world—through its focus on place and scale (horizontal axis)—cuts across its three domains of synthesis: human-societal dynamics, environmental dynamics, and environmental-societal dynamics (vertical axis).
Throughout this paper an attempt has been made to show the relevance of some of the concepts and techniques of geography to the study of development. Anthropology, by its very nature, is the social science which is least Eurocentric in its research and theoretical formulations; at the other.
Jun 10, 2016 · The report concludes by examining how biographical and genealogical approaches to narrating geography’s histories have important implications for the decisions made about inclusion and exclusion, about what and who counts in geography.
