GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Cultural Area, Human Geography, Cultural Landscape
12 Feb 2014
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Consider your own life and daily routine: wake up, go to school or work, return dinner. These cultural attributes vary based on: religious beliefs, language spoken, ethnic/ancestral origin, age, gender and individual personality. Dominance of popular culture in our society (such as jeans, sweater) Consider: having someone from papa new guinea in our culture. Consider: having someone from a university in tokyo or england. Culture the way of life of the members of a society. Culture (and cultural practices) varies over geographical space. Cultural symbol (eagle vs. beaver), canada and hockey, america and gun usage. Culture: the way of life of the members of a society. Tied to the values, beliefs, life styles etc. Consider sub-culture: smaller population that has own values, beliefs and lifestyle that is different than their culture (ex. Cultural geographers: spatial distribution of cultural activities, their hearth areas and the process of diffusion across space e. g. hearth area = centre of culture.
