GEOG 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Blue-Collar Worker, Infant Mortality, Merchant Capitalism
9 May 2016
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Geography is a thriving, diverse discipline with its own set of theories, research methods, terminology and subject matter and it has a unique way of looking at the world. Geography is not unified by subject, but rather by method or mode of analysis: this mode of analysis involves a spatial perspective. Geography can be conceptualized as a way of thinking about the world, space and places. This spatial perspective involves the fundamental question about how both cultural and natural phenomena vary spatially (geographically) across the earth"s surface. Academic discipline of geography: the study of the spatial variation of phenomena across the earth"s surface. 3 main subfields: physical, human and environmental geography. Physical landscape: refers to the patterns created on the earth"s surface by natural or physical processes: ex: tectonic forces create continents and mountain chains. Ex: tectonic forces create continents and mountain chains. The human imprint on the physical landscape. A stage upon which societal struggles are played out.
