人文地理学理论的多元性

在西方地理学界，八十年代以后，人主义与后现代主义思潮兴起，推动了人地理学理论的多元化发展，在人地理研究中，针对不同性质的问题，应采用与之相对应的适合理论，而不应不顾问题的属性，盲目地追逐理论的新奇时髦。理论与问题的统一性，是运用理论成败的关键。

THE THEORETICAL VARIETY IN THE STUDIES OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

In the West, the quantitative revolution had promoted theinterests in developing theory of human geography. The theory then, however, was understood as universal pattern or law or regularity. Since the 1980s, the ideas of humanism or post modernism prevalent in the field of human geography. Different theories, other than positivist hypothesis, have been employed in the studies of different subjects of human geography. The recent history of human geography in the West shows that the studies of human geography need various theories, not the theory, to deal with various kinds of questions. Human geographers should accept the importance that theory must be properly employed in order to meet the requirement of particular subject and particular purpose.