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	Quantitative revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The quantitative revolution was one of the four major turning points in the history of geography (the other three being regional geography, environmental determinism and critical geography).
		The greatest impact of the quantitative revolution was not the revolution itself but the effects that came afterwards in a form of the spread of positivist (post-positivist) thinking and counter-positivist responses.
		The quantitative revolution also changed the structure of geography departments in the USA with many physical geographers being merged with geology departments or environmental science departments leaving the geography departments to become solely human geography oriented.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quantitative_revolution (1193 words)

	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Geography
		In the West during the 20th century, the discipline of geography went through four major phases: environmental determinism, regional geography, the quantitative revolution, and critical geography.
		The quantitative revolution was geography's attempt to redefine itself as a science, in the wake of the revival of interest in science following the launch of Sputnik.
		Quantitative revolutionaries, often referred to as "space cadets," declared that the purpose of geography was to test general laws about the spatial arrangement of phenomena.
	www.fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Geography (2273 words)

	Ernest Mandel: Case for Revolution (1989) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		And when under the influence of the Russian revolution of 1905, Kautsky came the nearest to revolutionary Marxism and was the undisputed mentor of Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg and Trotsky [26], he also explicitly identified the perspective of inevitable catastrophes to which capitalism was leading as one of the main pillars of Marxism’s revolutionary perspectives.
		The historical-social origins of that passivity are well-known: the defeats of the international revolution; the pressure of scarcity of consumer goods and of lack of culture born from the relative backwardness of Russia; the consequences of the Stalinist terror; a disappointment of historical dimensions, leading to a lack of historical alternatives to the bureaucracy’s rule.
		It is an undeniable fact that the existence of the USSR in spite of the bureaucratic dictatorship and theory of “peaceful coexistence,” objectively contributed to the victory and eventually the consolidation of the Chinese revolution and the downfall of the colonial empires in the subsequent decades.
	www.marxists.org /archive/mandel/1989/xx/rev-today.htm (11535 words)

	Weekly Assignment 3
		Basically this paper was written at a time when quantitative measurements (mapping, models, statistics) became the main focus of research in the field of physical geography.
		According to Burton, the quantitative revolution in geography began in the late 1940’s or early 1950’s but is now over.
		He further concludes that the revolution is over because of the rate at which schools of geography in North America are adding courses in quantitative methods to their requirements for graduate degrees.
	geog.tamu.edu /~estela/WeeklyAssignment3.htm (670 words)

	A Quantitative Revolution in Acupuncture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was after the advent of the quantitative revolution that acupuncturists started concentrating more on field studies, generating primary data, utilizing secondary data and applying testing and sophisticated diagnostic techniques.
		The overenthusiasm of the present-day preachers of the quantitative revolution has, however, given way to the present phase in which mathematical and statistical methods are just one of many tools for approaching the problems in acupuncture.
		The quantitative revolution as stated above began in the developed nations of the West, where theories and models were constructed on the basis of data collected.
	www.acupuncturetoday.com /online/kumar.html (923 words)

	Institute in a Box: How and Why Things Change
		Quantitative stages are knowable, and we must learn them in order to prepare for and utilize them.
		The assembly line was a quantitative development within the quality "industry." It did not change industry, but was a stage of development for that change.
		It is important to remember that quantitative changes come about from internal contradiction, contradictions that kick the process from one stage to the next.
	www.scienceofsociety.org /inbox/res3.html (2360 words)

	Entering an Epoch of Social Revolution
		In this respect, the first stage of the revolution is the creation of a party guided by scientific socialism which is an organization of the practical leaders of the revolutionary proletariat.
		The content of the revolution is social reconstruction that guarantees the distribution of the necessaries of life.
		In addition to participation in the Watts Rebellion of 1965, Nelson Peery was a supporter/participant in the revolution in the Philippines in 1945 and in Ethiopia in 1978.
	www.scienceofsociety.org /texts/epoch/epoch.complete.html (14999 words)

	EH.R:Forum:Agricultural Revolution
		Moreover, whether or not you consider the eighteenth century to be an 'Agricultural Revolution', there were a number of quantitatively important changes occuring in England which had not occured previously and which were not occuring anywhere else at that time.
		Bob argues that a Yeoman Revolution occured between 1600 and 1750 and a Landlord Revolution occured between 1750 and 1800.
		These would be some of the dividends derived from the Landlord Revolution (because if holdings had still been scattered then the cost-reducing technology which came along would have had no impact on drainage rates, either in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries).
	www.eh.net /pipermail/eh.res/1998-November/001601.html (3553 words)

	QUANTITATIVE REVOLUTION
		Burton (1963) described the Quantitative Revolution as "a radical transformation of [the] spirit and purpose" of Geography.
		The Quantitative Revolution was yet another attempt to make geography "more scientific" by taking it off on yet another new tack, and in the process the revolutionaries tried to force regional geography to walk the plank.
		Burton, I. The quantitative revolution and theoretical geography.
	www.abdn.ac.uk /~geo337/gg3012/qrev.html (1475 words)

	Revisiting Feminist Research Methodologies: A Working Paper - I. Quantitative versus qualitative methods? The state of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Qualitative studies usually also include more quantitative questions as an adjunct, enabling the researcher to, for instance, characterize the interviewee in terms of her position with respect to certain measurable dimensions (such as education, income etc) thought to be significant in explaining variations in findings between one interviewee and another.
		Quantitative researchers and some qualitative researchers argue that different observers of the same data must be capable of reaching the same conclusion about what the data say (within the limits of the ways that observers themselves choose to see what they want to see...) (O'Neill 1995).
		By and large, quantitative researchers try to construct their studies in such a way that their empirical findings can be generalized to a larger population or applied to a different population from the one that they studied.
	www.swc-cfc.gc.ca /pubs/pubspr/revisiting/revisiting_3_e.html (4594 words)

	GEO 466/566: Quantitative Revolution
		The Quantitative Revolution itself was not restricted to geography.
		Some of the key characteristics of the Quantitative Revolution were the new types of technology used by geographers.
		The Quantitative Revolution has been called one of the greatest periods of intellectual achievement in the whole history of the discipline.
	www.valpo.edu /geomet/geo/courses/geo466/topics/quant.html (898 words)

	Quantitative Geography: Perspectives on Modern Spatial Data A... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Quantitative Geography is a lucid and comprehensive overview of the use of quantitative methods in spatial data analysis.
		It focuses on the philosophy informing spatial analysis and demonstrates the significant differences between modern quantitative methods and the methods associated with Geography’s ‘Quantitative Revolution’ in the sixties.
		Comprising a discussion of specific techniques, Quantitative Geography critically examines the profound difference in the use of those techniques since the quantitative revolution.
	www.ai-geostats.org /books/_books/00000010.htm (170 words)

	What happened next depends on your point of view
		At the same time, a number of GIS practitioners objected to portrayals of their field as a direct descendent of the quantitative revolution and as a "mere technique." This paper re-analyzes a spectrum of issues raised by critics during the past decade by incorporating knowledge and analyes of GIS scholars.
		Though many more sophisticated quantitative techniques were initially made available as subroutines with mapped output, few academics in GIS regard the technology as a direct descendant of the quantitative revolution.
		The impetus of the quantitative revolution was partially absorbed by GIS which became the new repository of techniques in geography.
	www.socsci.umn.edu /~bongman/gisoc99/new/schuurman.htm (13048 words)

	The Quantitative Revolution in Geography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Legend has it that the Quantitative Revolution in Geography began in a graduate seminar at the University of Washington in the mid-fifties.
		To some extent geographers have traditionally been interested in developing methods of quantitative geographic analysis; however, it was not until the turn of the twentieth century that there was concentrated effort to develop special programs of quantitative methods training and to expand the scope of quantitative geographic research.
		This trend is paralleled by an increasingly large number of quantitative dissertations and quantitative research papers found in a sample of the major geographic journals.
	www.csulb.edu /~gossette/classes/g596/quant_rev.html (2745 words)

	GEOG301_Syllabus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Although positivism is not the only paradigm in geography, it is still so important that quantitative methods, particularly statistical methods, are used in virtually every subfield of geography -- from remote sensing to economic geography to environmental analysis -- and in many other science and social science disciplines.
		The goal of this course is to introduce you to basic quantitative methodology, as used in geographic research.
		By the time you complete this course, you should be acquainted with several of the elementary procedures used in geography, how to interpret your results, and under what circumstances they may or may not be applied to research questions.
	userpages.umbc.edu /~earickso/Bobsweb/pages/301_syllabus.html (610 words)

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		Recollections of the Quantitative Revolution's early years: the University of Washington 1955-1965, in Billinge, M., et al, eds.
		Recollections of a revolution: Geography as a Spatial Science, p.
		To what extent does Morrill’s description of the early days of the quantitative revolution fit Kuhn’s ideas about the nature of science as outlined in Ch.
	geography.uoregon.edu /mcdowell/geog62101/StudyGuides/621wk03.html (219 words)

	Position Paper
		A useful parallel is the "quantitative revolution" of the 1960s and 1970s.
		While quantitative analysis struggled for acceptance initially, by 1980-85 it was both widely used and seen as essential to academic training at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
		The intersection of academic courses is another issue that arises by considering quantitative revolution parallels.
	www.ncgia.ucsb.edu /conf/sa_workshop/papers/brown.html (1466 words)

	Department of Geography at The Ohio State University
		He was enormously effective in promulgating the "Quantitative Revolution"; is credited with guiding and shaping the Ohio State Georaphy Department into one of the premier departments in North America; and accordingly, strongly influenced the direction of Geography as a discipline.
		Taaffe was elected President of the Association of American Geographers (1971-72) received an AAG Honors Award in 1982, and in 1983 a Master Teacher Award of the National Council for Geographic Education (the highest recognitions of those professional societies).
		While many of the new "quantitative geographers" were zealots who discarded geographic tradition, Ned sought to place the new perspective within the intellectual heritage of the filed.
	thoth.sbs.ohio-state.edu /GEOSPECTRUM/2001/9.HTML (1855 words)

	GeoComputation
		The late 1960's and early 1970's gave rise to a quantitative revolution in geography, as labelled by Haggett and Chorley (1967).
		One interpretation of this period is that the computers became the slaves of the quantitative geographers.
		Quantitative geographers switched over to GIS or they went to the back of the research funding line.
	www.geocomputation.org /what.html (1129 words)

	Mathematics and the Scientific Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This development is important to science because it makes geometry quantitative and permits the use of algebraic methods.
		Geometry must be quantitative for it to be useful in science and engineering, and algebraic methods permit more rapid development of mathematics than the less systematic (if more rigourous) methods required by the Greek axiomatic approach to geometry.
		Developed independently by Newton and Leibniz, the calculus is the foundation on which a large part of the mathematics required for science is built.
	www.rbjones.com /rbjpub/maths/math011.htm (424 words)

	SAGE Publications - Quantitative Geography
		Written to be accessible, to communicate the diversity and excitement of recent thinking, Quantitative Geography will be required reading for students and researchers in any discipline where quantitative methods are used to analyze spatial data.
		The book is particularly important for those who are dealing with spatial data, both geographers and researchers in other disciplines, and those who wish to appreciate newly developing techniques in spatial analysis.
		First, it shows that quantitative methods have remained an exciting area of development and, second, it shows that, if anything, they have more relevance to substantive problems of interest than they have ever had.
	www.sagepub.com /book.aspx?pid=6707&sc=1 (543 words)

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		Even if it is thought of as a simple extension of current simulation technique, it provides a very epoch-making, quantitative revolution.
		Moreover, the Earth Simulator is so powerful that it provides the possibility of not only a quantitative revolution but also qualitative conversion of the simulation.
		Development of the Earth Simulator began in April, 1997 and was completed at the end of February in 2002.
	www.hpcc-usa.org /Abstracts/satoabs04.htm (240 words)

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		Gilbert Shapiro, John Markoff and Sasha R. Weitman, "Quantitative Studies of the French Revolution," History and Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of History 12, 1973, pp.
		John Markoff and Gilbert Shapiro, "Consensus and Conflict at the Onset of Revolution: A Quantitative Study of France in 1789," American Journal of Sociology 91, 1985, pp.
		"Quantitative Studies in the French Revolution." Presented at the 1966 meetings of the Society for French Historical Studies (with Gilbert Shapiro and Sasha Weitman).
	www.pitt.edu /~jm2/cv.htm (4923 words)

	SAGE Publications - Quantitative Geography
		Integrating a discussion of the application of quantitative methods with practical examples, this book explains the philosophy of the new quantitative methodologies and contrasts them with the methods associated with geography's `Quantitative Revolution' of the 1960s.
		Key issues discussed include: the nature of modern quantitative geography; spatial data; geographical information systems; visualization; local analysis; point pattern analysis; spatial regression; and statistical inference.
		Written to be accessible, to communicate the diversity and excitement of recent thinking, Quantitative Geography will be required reading for students and researchers in any discipline where quantitative methods are used to analyse spatial data.
	www.sagepub.co.uk /book.aspx?pid=101629&sc=1 (463 words)

	International Geographical Union Regional Conference
		As a major initiative, it is organising special sessions under the title, ‘Legends of the Quantitative Revolution in Geography’, to celebrate the achievements of sixty years of theoretical and quantitative geography.
		An important theme for this conference is to recognise the major contributions of scholars to the evolution of geographical models, theory and quantitative methods.
		The Legends’ papers will provide the first section of a proposed book entitled ‘Legends of Geography: Celebrating Sixty Years of Theoretical and Quantitative Geography’ commemorating the discipline since the beginning of quantitative revolution in geography and the role that the IGU Modelling Commission has had in the development of theoretical and quantitative geography.
	www.ucgis.org /Events/IGU_Conference2005OrgNo4.htm (699 words)

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