GEOG 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Franz Boas, Cultural Relativism, Environmental Determinism
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Thinking about space and place as social processes. By texting in class, protesting on campus. How people relate to their environments and why people experience these in different ways. The ways people and places are connected across the globe. Definition: the totality of behavior patterns, ways of living and thinking, everyday practices, arts, beliefs, morals, institutions, and other products of work and thought that shape and come out of human relationships. Culture helps us challenge individualistic understandings of the world, and helps us understand how people"s lives are shaped by social forces. Can"t have sociology without the element of the social . Categorized suicides and placed them in axes. Social ideas about who we are shape the language we use, the food that we eat, the jobs that we do. Cultural difference = different social ways of being among different groups or in different places. Cultural geography was developed in the second half of the 19th century.
