Regioniniai tyrimai visuomeninėje geografijoje: metodologinių požiūrių kaita

Abstract

Therefore, all the regional research clustered around the newly established regional science. The third stage covers the time period since the end of the 1970s until now. Rejecting the 'impersonal' logical positivism, it has proposed lots of new theories in human geography. The criticism of positivism enabled the revival of regional research in geography. It revived in a completely new context of methodological discourse, influenced by the new methodological trends that could be classified into the three main groups of approaches: materialistic or political economy, humanistic - phenomenological, and structural approaches. All of these approaches are united by the prevailing paradigm of region. The notion of region gained very diffe- rent senses within these new methodological trends, and as a result the whole stream was called the new regional geography. Region in geographic research became a system of cultural, political, and economic social interaction, a social construct.