Differentiate between humanistic geography and human geography.
Humanistic geography
is a perspective of Human geography based on humanism, which emphasizes
human awareness, values and experience. It seeks to achieve an understanding of
the human world by studying people’s relation with nature and their spatial behaviour
in terms of their feelings and ideas about space and place(i.e., Man-Environment
Relationship).It developed as a response to the quantitative revolution in
Human Geography.It is concerned with the social organization of space. It is
sub-divided into:
a) Idealism;
b) Phenomenology;
c) Existentialism.
It is non-scientific
and non-law seeking approach.
Human geography is a branch of geography and deals in the study of the people and their activities.
It includes the major systematic fields of – behavior, cultural, economic,
urban political geography etc. (i.e., all aspects of non-physical environment
of geography). It covers three related themes –
a) Spatial analysis;
b) Study of inter-relationships;&
c) Regional
synthesis.
It
comprises of both empirical and quantitative methods. It is a law seeking
approach, example-Laws on Migration.
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