Human Geography

Examine the humanistic approach of human geography.

Explain the regional analysis approach of human geography.

Examine the concept of naturalisation of humans.

Relation Between Humans and their Physical Environment
You are already aware of the fact that 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. You will realise that 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).
Human beings interact with their physical environment with the help of technology. It is not important what human beings produce and create but it is extremely important ’with the help of what tools and techniques do they produce and create’.
Technology indicates the level of cultural development of society. Human beings were able to develop technology after they developed better understanding of natural laws.

Read the following sub-fields of social geography carefully and choose the correct option: I. Resource Geography
II. Leisure Geography
III. Gender Geography
IV. Marketing Geography

The concept 'identifying the uniqueness of any region and understanding how it is different from others', is concerned with which one of the following approaches of geography?

Read the following sub-fields of social geography carefully and choose the correct option: I. Resource Geography \hspace{1cm} II. Leisure Geography
III. Gender Geography \hspace{0.8cm} IV. Marketing Geography

The concept, ``understanding the parts in totality would lead to understanding of the whole'' is concerned with which one of the following approaches of geography?

Two statements are given below. They are Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Read both the statements carefully and choose the correct option. Assertion (A): The concept of sustainable development emerged in the 1980s. Reason (R): General awareness about environmental issues originated during the 1960s in the western world.

Read the following sub-fields of social geography carefully and choose the correct option: I. Resource Geography II. Leisure Geography
III. Gender Geography IV. Marketing Geography

``Neither there is absolute necessity nor there is absolute freedom.'' The given statement is related to which one of the following concepts?