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| Space, Locations, Spatial relationships |
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| collective mental and spiritual manifestations forms of behavior and social structures |
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| landforms, climate, flora, fauna |
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| from a cultural perspective, emphasis on meanings, values, attitudes and beliefs of different groups |
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| 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 |
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physical/human
local/global
regional/topical
idiographic/nomothetic
quantitative/qualitative
concrete images/ abstract theories |
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| Differences in perspectives |
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geography, history, natural sciences and humanities
often look at the same phenomena but they approach the world from different perspectives |
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| focus in regularities/laws |
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ethics & aesthetics
focus on morality & beauty |
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seeks patters, regularities application of scientific method to study people
quantitative |
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humanistic view of a location
location in the sense of the inhabitants and landscape of that area |
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| analyzed in disregard of scientific knowledge |
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| more chaotic than science can tolerate |
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| rejects use of math as most essential human beliefs & values, can't be measured |
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| unique to place, not universal |
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certain groups have power over others
dominate group's beliefs become the norm
social hierarchies maintain dominance |
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inhabited by people who have one or more cultural traits in common
borders are rarely distinct
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| Functional Cultural Region |
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area with dissimilar parts that is organized to function politically, socially of economically
ex. area code |
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| Vernacular Cultural Region |
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| perceived to exist by its inhabitants, a collective spatial perception of population at large |
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movement of people, ideas or things from one location to another
by relocation or expansion |
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spread through contact & exchange temporarily bypassing places of lesser importance
ex. New York-Chicago-Los Angeles-Dallas |
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| diffusion weaken over time |
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| blocks or directs diffusion |
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| actions of processes that involve the entire world & result in making something worldwide in scope |
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| relationships between physical environment & culture |
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| people are primary architects of culture not environment |
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| Environmental determinism |
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| physical environment provide dominate force in shaping culture |
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| Environmental perceptions |
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| cultural attitudes shape perceptions of environment |
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| visible material landscape that cultural groups create in inhabiting the earth |
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| types of cultural landscape |
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reading the landscape
metaphorical & ideological
aesthetic |
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| 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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| 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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