GRG 305 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Ethnocentrism, Cultural Ecology, Contracture
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Everyday use of places to achieve social objectives. Evident in nostalgic attachment to place as well as in militant defense of claims to place. An abstract system of relationships we inhabit (or believe ourselves to inhabit) Time-space convergence (reducing the time required to get through space) Cognitive space (where you feel that you are in space; a philosophical question) Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things waldo tobler"s first law of. Geography waldo tobler"s first law of geography . Distance in terms of travel time i. e. g. , san antonio is an hour and a half away . Culture e. g. , the railroad decreased the time frame one spent traveling. Shared beliefs, practices, language, technologies of a group of people. A: ways of transmitting these shared beliefs, practices, memories, perceptions, and values. Set of interrelated traits that change and evolve. Examples: gay culture, hip-hop culture, academic culture, christian fundamentalism, immigrant culture, etc.
