ABSTRACT

In any review and discussion of the role and influence of the behavioral methodology on geography in general and on specific substantive fields within geography, we are necessarily faced with the problem of trying to assess the extent to which there is a discernible impact of one on the other, and whether there is an accidental connection or simply a parallelism between trends in geography and in other social sciences. Specifically, this chapter is designed to examine the degree of parallelism and/or interdependence between behavioral geography and residential mobility. Have they influenced one another? What are the common threads which link these two diverse fields?