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Ch. 1& 2
Cultural Geography
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Geography
Undergraduate 3
02/23/2011

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Term
Geography
Definition
Space, Locations, Spatial relationships
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Culture
Definition
collective mental and spiritual manifestations forms of behavior and social structures
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Physical Geography
Definition
landforms, climate, flora, fauna
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Human Geography
Definition
from a cultural perspective, emphasis on meanings, values, attitudes and beliefs of different groups
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Geographical scissors
Definition
two elements of equal strength that work nearly in opposition but perform a service that is vital
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Examples of Geographical scissors
Definition
physical/human
local/global
regional/topical
idiographic/nomothetic
quantitative/qualitative
concrete images/ abstract theories
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Differences in perspectives
Definition
geography, history, natural sciences and humanities

often look at the same phenomena but they approach the world from different perspectives
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Natural Sciences
Definition
focus in regularities/laws
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History
Definition
time
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Humanities
Definition
ethics & aesthetics
focus on morality & beauty
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Spatial Models
Definition
seeks patters, regularities application of scientific method to study people
quantitative
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Space
Definition
actual location on a map
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Place
Definition
humanistic view of a location
location in the sense of the inhabitants and landscape of that area
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Humanistic approach
Definition
sense of place
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lived experience
Definition
analyzed in disregard of scientific knowledge
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the world is...
Definition
more chaotic than science can tolerate
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Qualitative
Definition
rejects use of math as most essential human beliefs & values, can't be measured
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Explanations
Definition
unique to place, not universal
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Topophilia
Definition
love of place
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Power & Ideology
Definition
certain groups have power over others
dominate group's beliefs become the norm
social hierarchies maintain dominance
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Cultural region
Definition
grouping of like places
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Formal Cultural Region
Definition
inhabited by people who have one or more cultural traits in common
borders are rarely distinct
ex.
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Functional Cultural Region
Definition
area with dissimilar parts that is organized to function politically, socially of economically
ex. area code
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Vernacular Cultural Region
Definition
perceived to exist by its inhabitants, a collective spatial perception of population at large
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Diffusion
Definition
movement of people, ideas or things from one location to another
by relocation or expansion
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Hierarchical expansion
Definition
spread through contact & exchange temporarily bypassing places of lesser importance
ex. New York-Chicago-Los Angeles-Dallas
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Distance decay
Definition
diffusion weaken over time
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Barriers
Definition
blocks or directs diffusion
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Globalization
Definition
actions of processes that involve the entire world & result in making something worldwide in scope
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Natural-culture
Definition
relationships between physical environment & culture
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Possiblism
Definition
people are primary architects of culture not environment
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Environmental determinism
Definition
physical environment provide dominate force in shaping culture
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Environmental perceptions
Definition
cultural attitudes shape perceptions of environment
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Cultural landscapes
Definition
visible material landscape that cultural groups create in inhabiting the earth
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types of cultural landscape
Definition
reading the landscape
metaphorical & ideological
aesthetic
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Popular Culture
Definition
constant changing mix of material & nonmaterial elements available though mass production and the mass media to an urbanized heterogenous nontraditional society
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Folk Culture
Definition
body of institutions, customs, dress, artifacts, collective wisdoms, and traditions of a homogenous, isolated, largely self-sufficient and relatively static group
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