Geographic Thought Questions and Answers

151.

In the development of Quantitative Revolution, a new field of study called 'Social Physics' stating that "dimensions of society are analogous to the physical dimensions and include numbers of people, distance and time" was introduced by

A.J. Q. Stewart
B.Edward Ullman
C.W.L. Garrison
D.William Warntz

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UGC NET - 2014,

Answer: A

Social physics, the idea that the dimensions of society are analogous to physical dimensions and include numbers of people, distance and time, was introduced by J.Q. Stewart, who applied gravity and potential models to the distribution of population.

Ullman, Garrison and Warntz were also associated with the quantitative revolution, but Warntz extended Stewart's work and the key credits Stewart with the original introduction of social physics.

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152.

Given below are two statements, one laballed as Assertion (A), and the other labelled as Reason (R) :

Assertion (A) : The major Thrust of Quantitative Revolution is to bring law making, model building and Theorization in Geography.
Reason (R) : After the second world war, young geographers discarded the empirical, descriptive and gazetteer type of Geography by using the mathematical language rather than the language of literature. Select your answer from the codes given below :
Codes :

A.(A) is correct but (R) is wrong.
B.(A) is wrong but (R) is correct.
C.Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
D.Both (A) and (R) are wrong.

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2014,

Answer: C

Both statements are correct and the Reason explains the Assertion. The quantitative revolution after the Second World War set out to make geography a law-seeking science, using theory and models, and young geographers gave up descriptive, gazetteer-type work for mathematical language.

The turn to mathematics is why law making and model building became the main thrust, so (R) is the correct explanation of (A), and neither statement is wrong.

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153.

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below :

List - I	List - II
i. T. Haggerstrand	a. Theoretical Geography
ii. William Bunge	b. Geographic Dissemination of Innovations
iii. Gilbert White	c. Methods of Regional Analysis
iv. Walter Isard	d. Human Reponses to Floods

Codes : a b c d

A.ii i iv iii
B.ii iii iv i
C.iv ii iii i
D.iii iv i ii

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2014,

Answer: A

The correct matching is ii-a, i-b, iv-c and iii-d: William Bunge for Theoretical Geography, T. Hagerstrand for geographic dissemination of innovations, Walter Isard for Methods of Regional Analysis and Gilbert White for human responses to floods.

The codes in the list a b c d read ii i iv iii. The other options give Bunge, Isard or White a work by another scholar and so are wrong.

The innovation diffusion work of Hagerstrand at Lund is a good case of the quantitative revolution, since it used models and simulation to describe how new ideas spread through space.

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154.

Match List-I and List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below :

List - I	List - II
i. Otto Schluter	a. Political geography
ii. Von Richthofen	b. Das Ausland
iii. Oscar Peschel	c. Major work on China
iv. Friedrich Ratzel	d. Visible content of the landscape

Codes : a b c d

A.iv i ii iii
B.iv iii ii i
C.iii iv i ii
D.ii i iv iii

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2014,

Answer: B

The correct matching is iv-a, iii-b, ii-c and i-d: Friedrich Ratzel for political geography, Oscar Peschel for Das Ausland, Von Richthofen for the major work on China and Otto Schluter for the visible content of the landscape.

The other options mismatch at least one of these four, such as giving Schluter political geography or Peschel the work on China.

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155.

Which one of the following statements is not true about Humanism in Geography.

A.Humanism does not treat humans as machines.
B.Humanistic geography gives importance to human awareness, human consciousness and human creativity.
C.Humanists accept the reduction of space and place to geometrical concepts of surface.
D.Humanism developed as criticism against positivism and quantitative revolution.

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2014,

Answer: C

The statement that is not true is that humanists accept the reduction of space and place to geometrical concepts of surface. Humanistic geography rejects this view, which belongs to the positivist and quantitative approach, and gives importance to place, experience and meaning.

The other three statements are true: humanism does not treat people as machines, it values human awareness, consciousness and creativity, and it developed as a criticism of positivism and the quantitative revolution.

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156.

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below :

List- I (Philosophical approaches)	List - II (Advocates)
i. Idealistic	a. Relph
ii. Phenomenological	b. Harris and Guelke
iii. Radical	c. Smith
iv. Welfare	d. Bunge

Codes : a b c d

A.iv ii i iii
B.ii i iv iii
C.iii iv ii i
D.ii iii i iv

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2014,

Answer: B

The correct matching is i-b, ii-a, iii-d and iv-c: the idealistic approach is advocated by Harris and Guelke, the phenomenological approach by Relph, the radical approach by Bunge and the welfare approach by Smith.

In the codes a b c d the answer reads ii i iv iii. The other options give a school to the wrong advocate, such as radical to Smith or welfare to Bunge.

These approaches belong to the 1970s, when dissatisfaction with positivism led geographers to humanistic, radical and welfare viewpoints, each with its own leading writers.

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157.

Who among the following was a strong supporter of Ritter's teleological ideas ?

A.Guyot
B.Peschel
C.Gerland
D.Ratzel

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2014,

Answer: A

Guyot was a strong supporter of Ritter's teleological ideas. Arnold Guyot, a Swiss-American geographer, was a student of Ritter and carried his belief that the earth is a designed home for man to America.

Peschel, Gerland and Ratzel were German geographers who moved away from the teleological approach, in particular Ratzel who stressed the influence of the environment on man.

Ritter saw the earth as the home of man, designed for his education, and the contrast between this belief and the later environmental determinism of Ratzel marks a change in the history of geographic thought.

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