Abstract
‘Hard’ and ‘soft’ methods in analyses of territorial structures’. This article refers
to two distinct approaches to investigations of territorial structures and their changes: the
‘intuitive’ of ‘soft’ approach and a more rigid, formalized or ‘hard’ one. The examples of analyzing
the regional patterns in Poland over a almost 40 year span are called to illustrate these
relations between two methodological standpoints. The conclusion states that both of them
are valid and useful, however their strengths can be fully exposed when both are applied in an
comprehensive way, supporting each other in a difficult process of investigation multidimensional
and dynamic changes of the social territorial systems.
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