Which of the following statements about humanistic school of thought are correct?
A. It emphasises use of sophisticated statistical tools.
B. It includes aspects such as housing, health and education.
C. It is concerned with social wellbeing of people.
D. It considered social problems as a result of the development of capitalism.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → B and C only
In the 1970s, unhappiness with the quantitative revolution gave rise to three new schools of human geography: the welfare or humanistic, the radical and the behavioural schools.
A. It emphasises use of sophisticated statistical tools. — Incorrect. Computers and sophisticated statistical tools mark the spatial organisation phase (late 1950s to late 1960s), called the quantitative revolution. The humanistic school grew out of discontent with this dehumanised way of doing geography.
B. It includes aspects such as housing, health and education. — Correct. These are the aspects of social well-being that the humanistic school studies.
C. It is concerned with social wellbeing of people. — Correct. The social well-being of people was the main concern of the welfare or humanistic school.
D. It considered social problems as a result of the development of capitalism. — Incorrect. This is the radical school. It used Marxian theory to explain poverty, deprivation and social inequality, and it related social problems to the development of capitalism.
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Box (Chapter 1: Human Geography: Nature and Scope)
Table 1.1: Broad Stages and Thrust of Human Geography |
