Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Geography

Chapter

Fundamentals of Human Geography: Human Geography-Nature and Scope

Question:

Which of the following period witnessed the Emergence of humanistic, radical and behavioural schools of thought in Human Geography?

Options:

Later Colonial period

1970s

1930s through the inter-War period

Late 1950s to the late 1960s

Correct Answer:

1970s

Explanation:

Discontentment with the quantitative revolution and its dehumanised manner of doing geography led to the emergence of three new schools of thought of human geography in the 1970s. Human geography was made more relevant to the socio-political reality by the emergence of these schools of thought.