文化地理学是年轻的研究领域，由于范式尚不清晰，因此影响其为社会实践提供清晰的、独特的视角。本项目将以文献梳理和案例地验证，探究文化地理学的研究范式。其必要性来自三方面。第一，文化地理学研究受经验主义、实证主义、人文主义、结构主义、后结构主义和后现代主义等认识论的很大影响，哪些认识论适用于文化地理学研究？这尚没有清晰的答案，甚至还有讨论是否要有较为稳定的研究范式。第二，目前国际地理学界有两种文化地理学的定义，一种是将之作为人文地理学的分支，另一种是将之作为人文地理学的方法论。目前尚没有研究成果回答，两种定义下的文化地理学是否有相同的研究范式。第三，研究范式分为实证的和规范的。从文化是“属于和指引”的定义出发，文化地理学研究范式的特点是否是规范的？本研究旨在从科学范式的概念（标准）、理论、方法、范例梳理研究范式的规范特点，从而推动文化地理学的知识生产和在社会实践的作用。

Cultural geography is a young branch of human geography. It has a less clear view angle or unique view angle when it is applied to social practice because of its vague research paradigm. This project aims to analysis the normative paradigm of cultural geography by literature review and to test the paradigm by case studies. The necessary of this project comes from the three bellow. Firstly, cultural geography has been influenced by empiricism, positivism, humanism, structuralism, post-structuralism and post-modernism, etc. What epistemology is suitable to be applied in the research of cultural geography? There is no clear answer to this question. Secondly, the international academic community of geography has two definitions of cultural geography. One emphasizes the branch of human geography while the other emphasizes the research approach of human geography. There is no clear research achievement tells whether the two cultural geographies share a common paradigm. Thirdly, research paradigms categorize positive ones and normative ones. One of the definitions of culture is that culture is the target of identity and guides people’s behavior. Based on this, we would like to know if the research paradigm has normative features. This project will explore the normative features of the research paradigm of cultural geography by the concepts, theories, methodologies and examples. It is wished the conclusion of this project may push the knowledge production of cultural geography and enlarge the significant role of cultural geography in social practice.