Geography 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Conceptual Art, Sociocultural System, Santa Ana Winds
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Landscapes as example of nature, habitat, wealth, economic system, history, social problems. The more ways you can see, the more questions/answers. > means a change in doing and thinking. > natural and human landscape shape each other. > specialized behavioral patterns, understandings, and adaptations that summarize a way of life of a group of people. > communications in all forms [art, language, clothing, food, body gestures] > plurality-many cultures exist within a society (ii) cultures overlap in space (iii) cultures do not exist in vacuum (iv) cultural groups may conflict. > individual units of learned behavior that are shared by members of a cultural group. > portion of the earths surface occupied by people sharing cultural traits and complexes. > set of cultural regions that share similar charcteristics. > consist of ideas, beliefs, and knowledge of the culture. > mentifacts [religion, science] mentifact is at home (ii) technological subsystem.