Concept information
Preferred term
human geography theory
Definition
- Theory is a set of assumptions and propositions that offer explanation. There is no one unified theory that is applied by all social and physical scientists to explain the world. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Geography; Theory]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- anthropogeography
- behavioral geography
- Berkeley School
- chorology
- complexity theory
- complex systems models
- critical human geography
- cyborg ecologies
- geographies of difference
- geography and existentialism
- geography and Marxism
- human agency
- humanistic geography
- hybrid geographies
- idiographic
- imaginative geographies
- locality
- Malthusianism
- nomothetic
- nonrepresentational theory
- orientalism
- place (geography)
- radical geography
- regional geography
- regional science
- scale (geography)
- situated knowledge
- space (geography)
- subject and subjectivity
- text/textuality
- time-geography
- time-space compression
- vision and geography
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/human_geography_theory
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