Population as an object of scientific knowledge Human geography raises nowadays a great number of problems that social morphology had previously raised. Vidalian geographers openly refused to debate and their attitude created a problem for the discipline. The positivist model continues to dominate in geography whereas other social sciences have evolved toward critical disciplines. Should not we open human geography to criticism from other social sciences thus helping it reach finally the status of distinct social science?Un grand nombre de problèmes soulevés à l'heure actuelle en géographie humaine l'avaient été aussi par la morphologie sociale. Le refus évident du débat de la part des géographes vidaliens fait donc problème dans l'histoir...