ABSTRACT
The conception of geography as occupying an intermediate position between natural and social science was appealing to the first generation of American geographers, who were trained for the most part as geologists and hoped to apply this knowledge in the study of mankind. In addition, urban geographers had been influenced by the "human ecology" school in sociology, and cultural geographers had drawn support from anthropology. This chapter is devoted to an exploratory examination of each of these "borderlands". The problem of communication between these two fields is unusually complex, for the concept of culture is implicit in all of human geography and explicit in the subfield of cultural geography. Communication between geography and sociology has been more effective than that between geography and any other social science. Economic geography is not only the most populous field of human geography, it is also the field that has been most affected by technological innovations in recent years.
