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Science Geography as a Discipline: The Foundation of Theory,Content and Nature
Xiaoyan Yang
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Abstract
With the development of society,scientific activities have been one of the socialization divisions,and obviously,there should exist a regional structure.Some geographers have studied the relationship among science,technology and from the point of view of geography,and put forward some concepts such as and technology geography,technology and geography.But few studies have been conducted on the relationship among science and technology,geography and the geographical research of scientific history.This paper re-explained the connotation of geography,especially as a concept of a discipline.There is an ideological turn in scientific history research,namely the geographical turn,as well as in modern geographical research,i.e.,a shift to the soft side of research knowledge,technology,information,and transmission.We should pay more attention to the society influence on the development of science through in the ideological change of scientific history research,but not to influence on the development of through geography.Although geographers have made some contributions to the ideological change in the scientific history,their main aim is to research the scientific history from the perspective of geography,not the influence of science through geography.So,as a discipline,science geography contains the following aspects:(1) producing the society influence on the development of science through geography;(2) practicing the general plan of developing geography based on the mission,and exerting the influence on the development of through geography;(3) paying attention to the regional factors influencing the development of science.Besides,science geography include the following aspects:(1) space structure of scientific research and its organization;(2) space structure and the relationship between science and relevant organizations,geographical environment,economic conditions,technology,society,and culture;(3) the influence of science research and its relations with natural landscape,social landscape and cultural landscape;(4) the influence of science research and its relations with the development of man-earth regional system.