Question

Evaluate the dualisms that exist in Geography.

Answer 1

The three dualism in geography which started wide-ranging debates in the discipline of geography are:

1. Whether geography as a discipline should be a law making/ the orising (nomothetic) or descriptive (idiographic).
2. Whether the approach of the study should be regional or systematic?
3. Whether geographical phenomena can be interpreted theoretically or through a historic-institutional approach?