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How have dichotomy and dualism affected the methodological development of Geography? Describe.

  • UPSC 2025
  • Perspectives in Human Geography

A dichotomy in geography is a division of the discipline into two mutually exclusive branches — a cut through its subject matter that produces separate literatures, separate training and separate professional identities; a dualism is the persistence of two competing methodological or philosophical positions within the discipline, a cut through its way of knowing rather…

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  • The Founding Dichotomy: General (Systematic) versus Regional (Special) Geography
  • Nomothetic versus Idiographic: The Dualism That Produced Geography's Scientific Method
  • Physical versus Human Geography: The Deepest and Most Persistent Dichotomy
  • Determinism versus Possibilism: The Dualism of Causation and Agency
  • The Later Dualisms: Method, Philosophy, Space and Purpose
  • The Integrating Responses: How Geography Has Answered Its Own Divisions

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