GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cultural Geography
3 Apr 2018
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Consider your own life and daily routine: wake up, go to school/work, return home. These cultural attributes vary bases on: religious beliefs, language spoken, ethnicity, gender, age etc & personal personality: ones background might in uence food, clothes etc. Dominance in our society: based on material culture (things we see, hear, feel) Canada & america similarities: language, religion, tech, political beliefs, economy. Canada & america differences: societal values (national psyche), principles (life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness vs peace, order and good government) symbols (beaver, eagle), geopolitical (worlds superpower vs peacekeeper) Culture: values, beliefs, lifestyles: the emergence & history of culture (civilization) Sub-culture: values, beliefs, lifestyles that might be within a minority in a society (hunks, hippies, bikers, goths, teenagers) can be a way to show resistance as well. Spacial distribution- ways of life of society, distribution of language. Hearth areas - where cultural actives emerged or with highest concentration, societies practising a particular religion.
