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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