Human Geography Nature and Scope

 Class 12 

Geography 

 Chapter 1 

Human Geography Nature and Scope

Nature of Human Geography

•  Human geography studies the inter relationship between the physical environment and socio-cultural environment created by human beings through mutual interaction with each other.

• The elements like houses, villages, cities, road-rail networks, industries etc and all other elements of material culture have been created by human beings using the resources provided by the physical environment.

• While physical environment has been greatly modified by human beings, it has also, in turn, impacted human lives.

HUMANISATION OF NATURE

1. With the development of technology people understood the nature well

2. They move from state of necessity to state of possibilities

3. Human activities created cultural landscape

4. so it is called as possibilism. 

NEO DETERMINISM/STOP AND GO DETERMINISM

1.Developed by Griffith Taylor

2.It is a middle path between environmental determinism and possibilism

3. The concept shows that neither is

there a situation of absolute necessity nor is there a condition of absolute freedom.

4.Human beings were able to develop technology after they developed better understanding of natural laws.

5. For example, the understanding of concepts of friction and heat helped us discove fire.

There are two approaches of geography

1. systematic approach

2. Regional approach

 physical and human phenomena are described in metaphors using symbols from the human anatomy

 definition of human geography

Human Geography Defined

• "Human geography is the synthetic study of relationship between human societies and earth"s surface". Ratzel

Synthesis has been emphasized in the above definition.

•"Human geography is the study of "the changing relationship between the un-resting man and the unstable earth."Ellen C. Semple

Human Geography through the Corridors of Time

• If we imagine the beginning of human geography with the interaction of environment and human beings, it has its roots deep in history

• The concerns of human geography have a long temporal continuous  though the

approaches to artificial culture  them have changed over time

 • This dynamism in approaches and thrusts shows the vibrant nature of the discipline. 

• For example, in the late 15th century witnessed attempts of explorations in Europe and slowly the myths and mysteries about countries and people started to open up. 

• The colonial period provided impetus to further explorations in order to access the

resources of the regions and to obtain inventorised information

 • The intention here is not to present an in-depth historical account but to make you

aware of the processes of steady development of human geography. 

Fields and Sub-fields of Human Geography

• Human geography assumes a highly inter disciplinary nature

 • It develops close interface with other sister disciplines in social sciences in order to understand and explain human elements on the surface of the earth. 

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