Beyond Method, Beyond Ethics: Integrating Social Theory into GIS and GIS into Social Theory

1 January 1995

journal article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Cartography and Geographic Information Systems

Vol. 22 (1) , 98-103
https://doi.org/10.1559/152304095782540582

Abstract

Increasingly complex social issues make it imperative that GIS practitioners be aware of theoretical debates in the human sciences, where arguments over ontological status and epistemological approaches have subsumed technical and methodological issues. Understanding the debates around deconstruction, postmodernism, and structuration is crucial to the development of useful geographic information systems that deal with social constructs. GIS needs to be informed about social theory to remain relevant in contemporary research, but GIS also can contribute to the further articulation of social theory.

Keywords

ETHICS
SOCIAL THEORY
INTEGRATING SOCIAL
COMPLEX SOCIAL
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
GIS
SOCIAL ISSUES
THEORY INCREASINGLY

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