GEO 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Determinism, Determinism, Cholera
Document Summary
Geographers ask where? when they want to know. Almost anything that takes place can be studied from the. Flawed notion: culture is a direct response to the dictates climate and topography. Ex: people in south america inferior to people in. Mexicans are lazy bc of the heat in mexico . Assume something wrong w people who are from. Ugly potentialities and undermined the success of geo as a discipline. Shown how geographers understand these topics and how spatial thinking can be applied. Physical characteristics: in relation to what is there (weather, location, humidity/dryness, convenience, etc. ) Situation (what it"s like in relation to somewhere else) Many different types of regions (grouping of places) Based on economic connections, and fuzzy boundaries communication/transportation ties. Serves as the core and periphery region. Ex: la is a functional region that extends outward to include suburbs. Defined by a series of characteristics that are different from the surrounding areas (language, culture, food, etc. )
