结构主义地理学在当代的西方人文地理学中,占有相当的地位并且为地理学做出了很突出的贡献。本文较为详细的介绍了结构主义地理学的形成演变过程、方法论,最后简述了与其它主要人文地理学派的关系及其在地理学中的地位。

Structuralism geography is one of the most important schools and plays a significant role in human geography. Contrasting to the positivism geography and humanistic geography,structuralism geography pays much more attention to the dominant "deep structure" of geographical objects.
This article makes a brief introduction of the development of structuralism geography,then describes in details the methodology of this school. Here places together the three most popular geographical thoughts on philosophical base and compares the structuralism geography with the other two thoughts.