Hic sunt leones: Why geographers fear sophisticated methods and how it cripples attempts at providing policy relevant research?
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Hic sunt leones: Why geographers fear sophisticated methods and how it cripples attempts at providing policy relevant research?
Original language description
The paper focuses on the issue of methodology, which has been to some extent neglected in recent geographical thought. It is argued that attitudes toward methodology and methods differ significantly within the social sciences. The paper offers preliminary comparative analysis of political science, economy and geography which clearly shows geographical neglect of methodological questions in research and education. It is argued that this situation is highly problematic, because methodological tools for causal inference have double significance. Firstly, they enable to create and test theories and thus to accumulate knowledge. Secondly, political arguments are based on causal logic quite often. Therefore, without tools for engagement with this kind of arguments geography faces high obstacles in its disciplinary goal - to become social engaged and namely socially useful science.
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
AE - Management, administration and clerical work
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Article name in the collection
Political factors of economic growth and regional development in transition economies
ISBN
978-80-7464-357-6
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Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
26-34
Publisher name
University of Ostrava
Place of publication
Ostrava
Event location
Ostrava, Česko
Event date
Sep 10, 2013
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
000346373900004