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Geography
Describing the earth
Geography
The study of location and spatial relationships
5 Themes of Geography
1. Location, 2. Human Environment Interaction, 3. Place, 4. Region, 5. Movement
5 Themes of Cultural Geography
1. Region, 2. Movement, 3. Human Environment Interaction, 4. Landscape, 5. Globalization
Types of Regions
Formal, Functional, Perceptual/Vernacular
Formal Region
An area with people who have one or more cultural traits in common.
Functional Region
An area that has been organized to function politically, socially or economically (usually has a node).
Perceptual/Vernacular Region
An area defined by people's perceptions.
Diffusion
Movement
Time -distance Decay
The further away from the source, the weaker the trait
Contagious Diffusion
Something spreads to the closest people first (like a disease) and they keep passing it to the people closest to them.
Hierarchical Diffusion
Something spreads to important/high up people first (people who have influence).
Relocation Diffusion
When people move, or relocate, they take their culture traits with them.
Culture Hearth
Nuclear area within which a distinct set of culture traits develops and from which they diffuse.
Cultural Landscape
The VISIBLE imprint of humans upon the earth's surface.
Landscape as Text
"Reading" the landscape
Landscape as Palimpsest
Traces of landscape are still visible even when a place has changed over time
Globalization
The binding together of all the lands and peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by capitalistic free markets, in which cultural diffusion is rapid and independent states are weakened and cultural homogenization is encouraged
Globalization often results in...
phenomenon of time space compression. AKA distance seems smaller.
Cultural Imperialism
When one culture dominates over another.
Cultural Exportation
One culture being exported to other places. Eg. American culture- Starbucks, McDonalds
Supernatural Organization
A group of independent countries, or places, joined together for purposes of mutual interest.
Glocalization
The process by which global forces of change interact with local cultures, altering both in the process
The Demonstration Effect
When people see people from another culture that have things and then they realize that they have desires for these things and they want them for themselves.
Narrowcasting
The dissemination of information (usually by electronic media) to a specific audience. (Opposite of BROADcasting- to a general audience)
Diaspora
Movement of a population with a common ethnic identity who left their homeland voluntarily or involuntarily to settle in distant, often scattered areas.