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Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Geography

Chapter

Fundamentals of Human Geography: Human Geography-Nature and Scope

Question:

Which dualism was NOT the part of the study of Geography ___________

Options:

Nomothetic Vs Idiographic

Regional Vs Systematic

Physical Vs Human

Social Geography Vs Radical Geography

Correct Answer:

Social Geography Vs Radical Geography

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (4) → Social Geography Vs Radical Geography

Social Geography Vs Radical Geography is not a dichotomy in geography as a discipline.

The core concern of geography as a discipline is to understand the earth as home of human beings and to study all those elements which have sustained them. Thus, emphasis is on study of nature and human beings. Geography got subjected to dualism and the wide-ranging debates started whether geography as a discipline should be a law making/theorising (nomothetic) or descriptive (idiographic) (A). Whether its subject matter should be organised and approach of the study should be regional or systematic (B)? Whether geographical phenomena be interpreted theoretically or through historic institutional approach (D is incorrect)? These have been issues for intellectual exercise but finally the dichotomy between physical and human (C) is not a very valid one because nature and human are inseparable elements and should be seen holistically. It is interesting to note that both physical and human phenomena are described in metaphors using symbols from the human anatomy.