ESSAY ABOUT THE THOUGHT OF DAVID HARVEY

During the practice of geography, from its beginning, this depends on the development of what is called the instrument or formula that establish and manage the distribution of any objects and phenomena in space. The geographer has been known for obtaining the appropriate language and make it studying space.
The easiest way for geographers spatial location have always been Euclidean terms, which have led to the same geographer to look for alternatives to the exclusive location of new ideas for social space.
As for the concepts of space, Harvey's basically relates the experience in this transition influence each other, the experiences and moments lived relate, such as: the primary sensory experience, myths and images, cultural forms and scientific concepts.
Space concepts vary from another standpoint, a performance culture to another, and within these groups formed by disparities are other species of subgroups, which create concepts regarding space as paper having at society. Discover the historical development of scientific concepts of space is closely linked to the progress of the theory of physics, such as Newton's laws of motion.
Passing silvery logical positivism Harvey, who said that this current has to pass from philosophy to geography, as this social traits explained that geography could not do according to him, was critical and analytical work of Marx, as dialectical materialism, which had been adopted by several geographers beginners and believed it was the best way to interpret the space.
Based on the created by Marx, historical materialism and Marxist dialectics, Harvey built a new geographical discourse, "the space created replaces the effective space as predominant geographical organization principle" (Harvey, 1977: 325).

From this reformulation, Harvey shows the geographical space, not as a natural entity, but as a social byproduct production mode, and the only way to know about this space, from its geohistory, which is the knowledge of the processes involved in the production of space itself. The capitalist historical geography, the processes that have led to imbalances that are inherent, and that have to do with everyone, everyone applies the theory of Harvey.
Harvey has several arguments, which has developed over 20 years ago, these have to do with space and time, which contends that social constructions that are rooted in the materiality of the world, are by this pair of concepts that humanity is fighting for its survival equipment.
To which aspires Harvey is simply to show that using the historical dialectic materialism is even possible geographical issues into the space, location and atmosphere or environment. He says that both in geography and in social sciences dialectical reasoning is not entirely understood, this thought favors dialectical understanding of social processes.
Entering and counter revolutionary theory in geography and the problem of ghetto formation, Kuhn talks about what would be the real reason why you should carry out a revolution in geographic thought, Harvey shows interest in the way we view the Kuhn, although this is principally engaged in the natural sciences as a source of knowledge.
According to Kuhn, within science paradigms exist, things that likewise believed to exist in the social sciences, which in this article criticizes the way Harvey is not as explanatory as Kuhn's conclusions reached as anomalies arise as and still there are, create crises within the same paradigms.
The materialist abstraction Kuhn scientific thought, scientific progress idealism which abstracts a materialist basis, so it is not well-founded argument.
The discussion on the issues raised by Kuhn continues, it will be possible to use their knowledge in the social sciences? Do not know, since it has been called the social sciences as "pre-scientific" in the sense that none of the social sciences really established a conceptual framework, categories, relationships, and methods that are not paradigms, so therefore are not considered sciences.
On the other hand, has shown that posed by Kuhn processes in the natural sciences, also occur within the social sciences. Speaking of the counter, using the understanding of natural science paradigms, this paradigm is formed from the ability of handling and control over natural phenomena that occur.
Taking into account the concepts revolution and counterrevolution in the social sciences, one tenth of a revolution in scientific thinking principle of accounts is as tidy concepts and ideas, categories and relationships in a complex system of thought superior, so when judged regarding the realities that is dedicated to explaining, you get another reality opposed to this system seem irrelevant