Common Method of Geography

By: Legarda Q. SobravillaBEEd 1-5

Outline

• What is the Common Method of Geography• What is the Method for?• Quantitative• Qualitative

Quantitative Method in Geography•Geography is a diverse discipline, that seeks to understand our world in terms of space and place

•Geographers use quantitative approaches to describe, understand, and assess geographic phenomena

• In the history of geography, the quantitative revolution was one of the four major turning-points of modern geography

• The main claim for the quantitative revolution is that it led to a shift from a descriptive geography to an empirical law-making geography

• The quantitative revolution occurred during the 1950s and 1960s and marked a rapid change in the method behind geographical research, from regional geography into a spatial science

• The quantitative revolution had occurred earlier in economics and psychology and contemporaneously in political science and other social sciences and to a lesser extent in history

What is Quantitative Methods? • Data Collection • Analysis• Presentation

• visualization• mapping• cartography• Statistics• GIS• modelling etc.

Quantitative research is often contrasted with qualitative research, which is the examination, analysis and interpretation of observations for the purpose of discovering underlying meanings and patterns of relationships, including classifications of types of phenomena and entities, in a manner that does not involve mathematical models

Although a distinction is commonly drawn between qualitative and quantitative aspects of scientific investigation, it has been argued that the two go hand in hand. For example, based on analysis of the history of science, Kuhn concludes that “large amounts of qualitative work have usually been prerequisite to fruitful quantification in the physical sciences.”

• Qualitative methods produce information only on the particular cases studied, and any more general conclusions are only hypotheses.

• Quantitative methods can be used to verify which of such hypotheses are true

Qualitative research is often used to gain a general sense of phenomena and to form theories that can be tested using further quantitative research

For instance, in the social sciences qualitative research methods are often used to gain better understanding of such things as intentionality (from the speech response of the researcher) and meaning (why did this person/group say something and what did it mean to them?) (Kieron Yeoman)

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