IGNOU MGG-08 Advances in Geographical Thought - IGNOU Solved Assignment (Latest)

Part-A

All Questions are compulsory.

1. Give a detailed account of the progress and nature of geography in the early 1950s.
2. Critically discuss the philosophical basis of scientific and quantitative geography with merits and demerits of the quantitative approach in geography.
3. Discuss empiricism and logical empiricism in detail.
4. What are the differences between behavioural and humanistic geography in terms of their contents and methodologies? Write about the impacts of idealistic, phenomenological and existential ideologies on the methodologies followed in humanistic geography.

Part-B

All Questions are compulsory.

5. Give your comparative argument on the structuration and structuralism in understanding spatial structure.
6. Discuss in detail the origins of critical geographies with similarities and differences between radical geography and critical geographies.
7. Give a detailed discussion on post-structural and post-colonial human geography.

Part-C

8. Write Short notes on the following.

a) Major critiques of regional geography
b) Empiricism and logical empiricism
c) Spatial variables
d) Paradigm
e) Social production of nature
f) Geographies of difference

Part-A

All Questions are compulsory.

1. Give a detailed account of the progress and nature of geography in the early 1950s.
2. Critically discuss the philosophical basis of scientific and quantitative geography with merits and demerits of the quantitative approach in geography.
3. Discuss empiricism and logical empiricism in detail.
4. What are the differences between behavioural and humanistic geography in terms of their contents and methodologies? Write about the impacts of idealistic, phenomenological and existential ideologies on the methodologies followed in humanistic geography.

Part-B

All Questions are compulsory.

5. Give your comparative argument on the structuration and structuralism in understanding spatial structure.
6. Discuss in detail the origins of critical geographies with similarities and differences between radical geography and critical geographies.
7. Give a detailed discussion on post-structural and post-colonial human geography.

Part-C

8. Write Short notes on the following.

a) Major critiques of regional geography
b) Empiricism and logical empiricism
c) Spatial variables
d) Paradigm
e) Social production of nature
f) Geographies of difference