GEO 312 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: United States Federal Budget, Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index, Deflation
12 Dec 2012
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Geography: the study of the earth as the world of humankind, with special emphasizes on spatial phenomena. This is what we will talk about: to breakdown into components; dismantle, to write about or analyze following tenets of destruction. Three theoretical perspectives: functionalist, conflict, (symbolic) interactionist, social constructivism. Functionalist perceptive: society is a complex system of parts that interact organically to accomplish various necessary functions, change is generally accepted if gradual but seen as disruptive, social stratification is natural, inevitable, necessary. Conflict perceptive: views society as a struggle for resources and power, different groups compete for scarce resources: money, power, prestige, authority. Some groups prosper at the expense of others: change is inevitable, often beneficial and can be violent, conflict is universal; social consensus is limited; inequality is widespread, variants include feminism, marxism. Differential association: individuals learn to break the law because of the influence of friends, family, neighborhoods.
