GEO 106 Final: Geographies of Everyday Life.docx
Document Summary
Perception and cognition: how you view the world, and how these perceptions shape environments. Relativism: how we can all see the same thing but have different views of it depending on the many cognitive filters through which we view it. The environments of the soft city are shaped by people"s behaviour. The types of decisions people make are dictated by their cultural, economic, political, social, religious backgrounds, and their gender and sexual orientation. Quality of those decisions if influenced by their relative intellectual abilities to make decisions and the quantity and quality of information at their disposal. Differing backgrounds- give rise to differing perceptions of similar events, issues, environments. Differing perceptions- generate different interpretations of, and actions toward, environments, that in turn impact how these environments look. Front country behaviour: indicates you understand the unwritten, as well as the written, rules of behaviour of those particular behavioural settings. Topophilia: positive emotional responses towards a place.