Comparing Approaches to Geography
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- Created on: 19-03-21 10:58
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- Compare the main characteristics of two approaches to geography. Include evaluation of strengths & weaknesses.
- Spacial Science
- Methodology
- Testing a hypothesis
- Statistical analysis
- Questionnaires, land use. technologies and Government records
- Mapping and graphing
- Strengths
- Identifying Patterns
- Means of Prediction
- Weaknesses
- Understanding of process
- Suited to macro-scale investigations
- Wider Philosophical framing
- Objective
- Positivist
- Quantitative
- Value-free and detached researcher
- Methodology
- Humanistic
- Methodology
- Reconstruct lifeworld of people by talking about lived experiences
- Interviews, ethnography
- What are people doing on individual scale
- Strengths
- Nuanced view of human perceptions and behaviour
- Weaknesses
- Overemphasis on individual acency
- Wider Philosophical framing
- Subjective
- Phenomenological
- Qualitative
- Researcher involved in both production and interpretation of knowledge
- Methodology
- Marxist
- Wider Philosophical framing
- Subjective
- Structuralist
- Both Quantitative and Qualitative
- Researcher as activist changing society
- Methodology
- Focus on societal structure
- interests of capital and ownership
- observation of all scales
- Deconstruction of 2ndary resources
- Policy and business documents
- Class disparity
- Strengths
- Emphasis on understanding deeper structural forces in society
- Activist agenda
- Weaknesses
- Too great focus on economic determinism
- Wider Philosophical framing
- Post Structural
- Weaknesses
- Descriptive and theoretical
- A retreat from generalisation
- Strengths
- Highlights role of social and cultural processes
- Emphasis on meaning and difference
- Wider Philosophical framing
- Subjective
- Interpretivist
- Qualitative
- Diverse activism with respect to differences
- Methodology
- Examination and deconstruction of exclusionary practices in society
- What are the norms of marginalised groups?
- Observation
- Deconstruct documents and practices
- May critque Quantitative data but rarely use them
- What would it be like to be in these communities?
- History
- Weaknesses
- Spacial Science
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