GEOG 1F90 Lecture Notes - Multiple Choice, Focus Group, Masculinity
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Section 1: Multiple choice/ true of false- 30
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5 mark each
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Section 2: approx 6
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30 marks each
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Post on sakai before exam
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Section 3: Essay (2)
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Progress Exam
Shared beliefs, norms and values
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Once in place, it is often difficult to change until a new set of values emerge
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Ordinary, whole way of life
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The rules and resources for negotiation life
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A negotiation of long conversation
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Dynamic and changes over time
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Culture is a complex term typically refers to the way of life of the members of society
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Though its learned and subjective it is one of those things that divides us
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Ironically, our greatest achievement- culture- has been responsible for erecting behaviors and
sparking conflict between debate
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People would find their particular places within the city because of their culture
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Almost like biology
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City is like an ecosystem and where they belonged
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"a culture of poverty"
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They want to live in disorganization
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They really can't be helped
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You can change the conditions, but not the people
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People belong to a particular group
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What does this mean?
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An example:
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Culture is:
Culture is made in time and space
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There are lots of ways culture can be challenged, resisted and changes
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Culture is not above people
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Culture is not out there
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Culture is the sum of the parts (us)
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Culture is made and remade by individuals in social settings
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Every time that we choose to perform our gender, courtship rights, attend a lecture ,
eat in a particular way we are recreating culture
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Culture consists of the rules and resources that individuals draw upon to live their lives
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In choosing particular rules and resources individuals reproduce them
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It's important that we make and remake culture throughout our everyday lives but it
need to be flexible
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Culture is not flexible. It can be altered, transformed, and resisted by individuals and groups
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Culture is historically produced and actively contested
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A more Nuanced Definition of Culture
Who made the change?
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Cultural hearth- the place and origin of a particular innovation
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Innovation- a new feature material of non-material cultural attribute (a new idea or belief,
a new tool, a new way of organizing)
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Diffusion- movement of values, belief systems, normal, and material culture from one place
Two ways of identifying new cultural traits
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Where does culture come from?
Week 9- Cultural Geography
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Document Summary
Section 1: multiple choice/ true of false- 30. Culture is a complex term typically refers to the way of life of the members of society. Once in place, it is often difficult to change until a new set of values emerge. Ironically, our greatest achievement- culture- has been responsible for erecting behaviors and sparking conflict between debate. Though its learned and subjective it is one of those things that divides us. People would find their particular places within the city because of their culture. City is like an ecosystem and where they belonged. You can change the conditions, but not the people. There are lots of ways culture can be challenged, resisted and changes. Culture is made and remade by individuals in social settings. Culture is the sum of the parts (us) Culture consists of the rules and resources that individuals draw upon to live their lives.
