Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
A Paradigms
B Key themes
1900
Environment
and people
Environmental determinism
+
Unique areas
and places
Regional geography
+
Cultural
landscapes
Cultural geography
+
1950
Locational analysis
and models
Quantitative geography
+
Decision making
and perception
Behavioural geography
+
Relevance to
the real world
Applied geography
+
1970
Hidden forces and
meta-narratives
Structuralism
+
Diversity of
meanings
1990
Post-modernism
+
Celebrating
difference
Post-structuralism
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PRESENT-DAY HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
10. Paradigms of human geography: (A) the historical sequence of
paradigms that has left its legacy to present-day human geography;
and (B) the key themes that they represent. An approximate timescale
for the take-up of each paradigm and the broadening base of human
geography are also indicated
prevailing and infl uential set of ideas is replaced by another
(Figure 10). The old paradigms rarely disappear altogether but
leave a legacy capable of resurfacing in some new and amended
form. As indicated, the fi rst expressions of cause and effect in
human geography were strongly infl uenced by the need to relate
people and settlement to the natural environments that they
occupied. Any form of explanation was couched in terms such as
