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Positivism in Geography: Concepts

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Positivism in Geography

  • The 19th century nomothetic development in the science was a result of the Darwinian influence in the discipline. In due course of time, the hypothetic deductive approach was shifted to inductive approaches in social sciences. Thus it brings social sciences within the positivism framework. The priori models were founded and hypothesis developed for testing the models. as a result, Geography soon become positive led. The hypothetic-deductive approach led the discipline particularly human geography to develop as a model building and theoretical science since it dealt with phenomena that were familiar with reali…

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Positivism in Geography: Critique of Positivism

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Critique of Positivism

  • Positivism at a glance was useful for the rest of the disciplines. It provided a scientific outlook to the knowledge and argued for empirical evidences for all the facts. It had actually encouraged the quantitative revolution in disciplines.
  • Still the philosophy based criticisms. And these were centred on three basic rules;
    • Empiricism: positivist argued that laws and theories should be formulated based in real world observations. But his is not possible for every study. And today we have statistical techniques to select some events to do…

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