GEOG101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Consumerism, Heterosexism, Heterosexuality
28 Mar 2017
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Focuses on the way that space, place, and landscape shape culture at the same time that culture shapes space, place and landscape. The idea of cultural landscape; prominent features of a place to let you know where you are. Geographers are interested in conflicts and differences of different places. In general; culture is a shared set of meanings that is lived through the material and symbolic practices of everyday life. This is how we think of place, but this is not the definition of place. This also helps up differentiate different cultural groups. Note that the concept of culture is always in flux- being re-evaluated and redefined, even though culture is always tied to a place and influenced by globalization. Cultural traits are distinctive, featuring things like clothing, food, and traditional ceremonies. Cultural regions can be define by majority religions, architecture types. Culture- shared patterns of learned behavior, attitudes, and knowledge. Culture trait- a single component of a culture.
