GEOG 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Population Pyramid, Demographic Transition, Infant Mortality
4 Apr 2017
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Culture as a super organic force does not consider the diversity if groups that make up culture. Carl sauer who he is, what he wrote, what field he contributed to (important) Social categories & cultural markers: race, gender, ethnicity, faith, ability, age, class, sexual orientation, citizenship. The social groups to which a person belongs is the basis of their social identity. Difference social identities are marked, in part, by rules" of appearance. Intersectionality human life cannot be explained by taking into account single social categories. Identities are composed of multiple cultural markers, multiple social categories. Meanings are contested because cultures are composed of diverse social categories: for example, in the street there are various groups of people Gang hangouts, someone in a wheelchair viewing street as a challenge due to accessibility, teens who skateboard, street as a place of work for prostitutes. All of these people can view a single place different based on their lifestyle.
