Context, Social Construction, and Statistics: Regression, Social Science, and Human Geography

Hepple, LW

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“…While I deny the hegemonic explanatory power of quantitative methodology, I do not believe that it has run its full course yet (cf. Barnes 1996Barnes , 1998aHepple 1998;Sheppard 2001). In this article, I have taken a revisionist position by showing that while some aspects of quantitative methodology are useful in practicing new economic geographies, we need to think critically about the methodological implications of these new research practices.…”

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Practicing New Economic Geographies: A Methodological Examination

Yeung

2003

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

143

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Practicing new economic geographies necessarily entails a critical re-evaluation of research methodologies because of its different substantive research foci. In this article, I examine some methodological implications of the recent refiguring of the ''economic'' in economic geography. Some key features of new economic geographies include understanding the social embeddedness of economic action, mapping shifting identities of social actors, and exploring the role of material and discursive contexts in shaping economic behavior. I argue that practitioners of new economic geographies can no longer rely exclusively on established ''scientific'' methodology for empirical research and data analysis. Instead, I argue for a process-based methodological framework through which we employ complementary methodological practices (e.g., tracing actor networks and in situ research) and triangulation, not only to explore the microfoundations of economic action, but also to generate, in a reflexive manner, theoretical insights from the multiscalar dimensions of economic action.

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Practicing New Economic Geographies: A Methodological Examination

Yeung

2003

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

143

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“…Hepple (1998) considered the move away from quantification to have been more influenced by a change in the types of question that human geographers wished to ask. He noted that Cliff and Ord's (1973) work on spatial autocorrelation (which tackled the issue of spatial interdependence) was published at a time when human geography was moving away from such approaches.…”

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What kind of quantitative methods for what kind of geography?

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Dorling

2004

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This paper asks why we teach what we teach to geography undergraduates in quantitative methods courses. We re-consider the origins of quantitative geography and note how partial and historically contingent the traditional syllabus is. From this basis, we suggest that other approaches should be considered in order to provide a broader training in quantitative methods. We then propose an example syllabus that attempts to integrate a range of quantitative methodologies within a common, applied context that is also connected to relevant social, economic and political issues. We conclude that students with a better understanding of methods in physical and social science could be very valuable to the betterment of society, but to achieve this may require a change to our quantitative methods teaching.

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“…(Interestingly, Sheppard [1995] characterised me as one of the first cohort who switched from spatial analysis to social theory, even though the majority of my research over the last two decades -much of it published in political science rather than geography journals -is clearly in the spatial analysis mode as described here.) It intrigues me, to say the least, that the very substantial improvements in methods of spatial analysis are being taken up in other social sciences, including economics, at the same time as they are being shunned, if not denigrated, within their 'home' discipline (on which theme, see Hepple [1998]). Indeed, most human geographers appear to be cutting their links with those disciplines and their core literatures, in favour of developing contacts elsewhere in the academy -they are enamoured of the apparent 'spatial turn' in the humanities but not its parallel (albeit differently constructed) 'turn' in the social sciences.…”

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On Disciplinary History and Textbooks: or Where Has Spatial Analysis Gone?

Johnston

2000

Australian Geographical Studies

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Change within the academic discipline of geography comes about as a result of internal struggles for disciplinary hegemony, for its ‘heart and soul’ and for resources. One approach to the study of these struggles is through examination of textbooks, authoritative statements of the discipline's contemporary condition. Analysis of a small number of recent texts shows that they reflect a current contest within human geography between two groups, stereotyped as ‘spatial analysts’ and ‘social theorists’. The former are being ‘written out’ of disciplinary history, despite their continued vitality. Reasons for the continued presence of, and investment in, spatial analysis within human geography are rehearsed.

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Context, Social Construction, and Statistics: Regression, Social Science, and Human Geography

Cited by 12 publications

References 20 publications

Practicing New Economic Geographies: A Methodological Examination

Practicing New Economic Geographies: A Methodological Examination

What kind of quantitative methods for what kind of geography?

On Disciplinary History and Textbooks: or Where Has Spatial Analysis Gone?

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