Migration

American geographic Society The Hypothesis of the Mobility Transition Author(s): Wilbur Zelinsky Reviewed work(s): fount: geographic Review, Vol. 61, No. 2 (Apr., 1971), pp. 219-249 Published by: American geographic Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/213996 . Accessed: 24/10/2012 09:55 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the term & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of surfeit in a trusted digital archive. We use schooling technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For much information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. . American geographical Society is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Geographical Review. http://www.jstor.org THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE MO BILITY TRANSITION WILBUR ZELINSKY OCIALscientists guidedin theirgropings are towardpattern reguand larity in human activities by their small hoard of paradigms.In the fields of geography and demography, such wide intellectualdesigns have been especially scarce.

Indeed, there are probably no more than three major geographicalparadigmsin active use today. The first, which power be called the geographic axiom, so basic and instinctiveas to be seldom articulated, is the conviction that there is genuine significancein the spatialpatterning of physical and social events on and near the surfaceof the earth.Next is t he notion of the spatialdiffusionof innovati! ons,siredjointly by anthropologists and geographersand recently explored with highly interestingresults. Finally,geographershave borrowed the principleof least(prenominal) effort, or economic optimization, from economists and have grafted it onto the geographic axiom. This hybridizationhas spawned a payoff of hypotheses concerning the...If you desire to get a full essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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