Question

Differentiate between Humanistic or Welfare School of Thought and Behavioral School of Thought.

Answer 1

Welfare School of Thought

Behavioral School of Thought

Welfare School of Thought was mainly concerned with the different aspects of the social well-being of the people. These included aspects such as housing, health, and education. Geographers have developed welfare as a base to study geography. This thought was the result of rapid changes that happened after the Second World War because this war gave birth to many human problems, therefore to solve these problems, welfare or humanistic thought has developed.

In 1950-60, on the basis of psychological researches through qualitative and other methods many humanitarian aspects like the human race, caste, and religion. The Behavioural School of thought laid great emphasis on lived experience and the perception of space by social categories based on ethnicity, race, and religion, etc.