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| THE THEORETICAL VARIETY IN THE STUDIES OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY |
| TANG Xiao-feng1, LI Ping2 |
1 Department of Geography, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;
2 The Commercial Press, Beijing 100710, China |
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Abstract In the West, the quantitative revolution had promoted theinterests in developing theory of human geography.The theory then, how ever, was understood as universal pattern or law or regularity.Since the 1980s, the ideas of humanism or post-modernism prevalent in the field of human geography.Different theories, other than positivist hypothesis, have been employed in the studies of different subjects of human geography.The recent history of human geography in the West shows that the studies of human geography need various theories, not the theory, to deal with various kinds of questions.Human geographers should accept the importance that theory must be properly employed in order to meet the requirement of particular subject and particular purpose.
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Received: 29 May 2000
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2001, Vol. 16 
