Geography 1100 Chapter : Unit 4 - Some General Concepts - Cultural Geography.docx
12 Nov 2014
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Unit 4: some general concepts cultural geography. Culture the specialized behavioural patterns, understandings, and adaptions that summarize the way of life of a group of people. Components of culture: culture is transmitted within a society to succeeding generations by imitation, instruction, and example. Culture complex individual culture traits that are functionally interrelated. When they are plotted on maps, the regional character of the components of a culture is revealed. Culture region a portion of the earth"s surface occupied by people sharing recognizable and distinctive cultural characteristics. 1 world is far from homogenized and observe that globalization continues to be countered by powerful forces of regionalism, places of identity, and ethnicity. Culture ecology the study of the relationship between a culture group and the natural environment it occupies: similar natural environmental conditions influenced the development of similar adaptive responses and cultural outcomes in separate, unconnected locales.
