Geography 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fishing Net, Natural Landscape, Acculturation
18 Jan 2017
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Wealth, economic system (how we choose to live and exchange goods) History (no place just comes into existence), social probs. Means a change in doing and thinking. Specialized behavioral patterns, understandings, and adaptations that sum the way of life of a group of people. Ex: systems of shared beliefs religion, communication in all forms language, art, clothing, food, body gestures. People reproduce, sustain & modify culture. Plurality many cultures exist within a society. Cultures do not exist in a vacuum. Cultural trait that are functionally interrelated: example. Use of a car (minivan), children, house, lawns, pets. Portio(cid:374) of earth"s surfa(cid:272)e o(cid:272)(cid:272)upied (cid:271)(cid:455) people shari(cid:374)g (cid:272)ultural trait a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:373)ple(cid:454)es: example, the political organizations of societies, their form of economy, housing forms. Set of cultural region that share similar characteristics: example. Process by which a concept, practice, innovation, or material substance spreads from origin to new places.
