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Attention is drawn to the state of the theoretical-methodological basis of social geography, search for the forms reflecting the regular and essential relations in a given branch of knowledge. The sociomorphism of the latter is noted as the limiting factor of its axiomatization. The conclusion is made that despite the complete disorder of the methodological “baggage” and the absence of convincing verification for many theoretical constructions, the process of lawmaking and search for synthesizing principles in human geography is gradually “gaining strength.”
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Original Russian Text © Yu.N. Gladkii, 2009, published in Izvestiya Russkogo Geograficheskogo Obshchestva, 2009, Vol. 141, No. 6, pp. 1–15.
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Gladkii, Y.N. Human geography: Prospects of axiomatization and lawmaking. Reg. Res. Russ. 1, 62–72 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079970511010059
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