Relation of Human Geography with Other Social Sciences:


1. Economics and Human Geography
·         Both subject focuses on building theories about spatial arrangement and distribution of economic activities.
·          Both subject examines the economic conditions of particular regions or countries of the world. It deals with economic regionalization as well as local economic development.
·         Both subject examines the history and development of spatial economic structure. Using historical data, it
·         Both subject examines how centers of population and economic activity shift, what patterns of regional specialization and localization evolve over time and what factors explain these changes.
·         Bothe subject examines the cognitive processes underlying spatial reasoning, locational decision making, and behavior of firms and individuals
2. Politics and Human Geography
Both subject focuses on the matters like:
·         How and why states are organized into regional groupings, both formally (e.g. the European Union) and informally (e.g. the Third World)
·         The relationship between states and former colonies, and how these are propagated over time, for example through neo-colonialism
·         The relationship between a government and its people
·         The relationships between states including international trades and treaties
·         The functions, demarcations and policing of boundaries
·         How imagined geographies have political implications
·         The influence of political power on geographical space
·         The political implications of modern media (e.g. radio, TV, ICT, Internet, social networks)
·         The study of election results (electoral geography)
3. Population Studies and Human Geography
Both the subject focuses on the subject matters:
·         Demographic phenomena (natalitymortalitygrowth rates, etc.) through both space and time
·         Increases or decreases in population numbers
·         The movements and mobility of populations
·         Occupational structure
·         The way in which places in turn react to population phenomena, e.g. immigration
5. Sociology and Human Geography
Both the subject studies the social theory which deals with the social phenomenon and its spatial components, deals with the spatial interaction among groups and culture, tradition and language of a particular society.

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