GEOG 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Formal Science, Spatial Analysis
22 Jul 2020
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The geographical methodology and its four main principles. Methodology is a way of covering, studying and analyzing certain scientific events. According to authors like fidias arias, phenomena that have occurred and studied in society can also be considered a science, as long as they are verifiable knowledge, systematically organized and methodologically obtained. (arias, 2004). In this sense, then science is divided into formal sciences and factual or applicable sciences, the latter in turn is divided into: natural sciences, applied sciences and social sciences. The formal sciences include studies such as mathematics, logic, and linguistics. The factual sciences, in the branch of natural sciences, covers all the studies of physics, chemistry, biology, and the health sciences. As for applied science, the best example of what she studies is engineering. The social sciences encompass historical studies, economics, sociology, communicology, art, psychology, and what matters most now: geography.
