Geographie als moderne theorieorientierte Sozialwissenschaft?

Abstract: Led by Dietrich Bartels a dynamic group, made up argely of younger German geographers, has since1968 demanded that Human Geography should be conducted in line with a methodologically modern, theory-orientated social science. On the model of spatial analysis and the regional science of English-language geography all geographical research ought to aim itself at universally valid laws and comprehensive theories of social science. Where German geography has followed this summons it has for some years already been drawn into the serious crisis of modern social sciences. As a consequence, most recent epistemological developments of Human Geography in Germany can be summarized under three headings: 1. Thirty years of every-day research routine in the empirical social sciences have shown that a strict orientation towards the general, towards laws and comprehensive theories lead into a cul-de sac. It is often the case that not only the interesting nuances, but rather the essential and the d.... https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/2033

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

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• Bibliographic citation: Geographie als moderne theorieorientierte Sozialwissenschaft? ; volume:38 ; number:2 ; year:1984 ; Erdkunde ; 38, Heft 2 (1984)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Wirth, Eugen

Further information

• DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.1984.02.01
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410290924086.125513124772
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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