GEOG 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Place Identity, Social Stratification, Indus River
11 May 2020
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Cultural traits can be plotted on maps; regional character of the components of culture is revealed. Culture region: portion of the earth"s surface occupied by populations sharing recognizable and distinctive cultural characteristics (e. g. regions sharing common religion, etc. ) Within any single recognized culture region, groups united by the specific mapped characteristics may be competing and distinctive in other important culture traits. Culture realm: a large segment of the earth"s surface having an assumed fundamental uniformity in its cultural characteristics and showing a significant difference in them from adjacent realms. Culture regions at the broadest scale of recognition. Validity may weaken with globalization; homogenization of cultures with international corporations, increased mobility, goods, information, etc. Globalization countering with powerful forces of regionalism, place identity, and ethnicity; more of a combination of multiple territorial cultures rather than a standardized uniformity. Socio/technical revolutions originated in neolithic period; spatially confined, but diffused as people selectively adopted their creations.
