GEO 527 Study Guide - Final Guide: Post-Fordism, Social Democracy, Labour Power
31 Jul 2017
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Lecture 1: social geography and the socio-spatial dialectic. Behavioural approach (1970s: emerged as a critique of the quantitative approach, study of people activities and decision making, example: why people shop at a certain store, phenomenology, thought process often described as peeling an onion. Before reaching the core, you need to peel all the layers. You have to get rid of your own biases to understand the core of the material: example: you must not have a bias that only chinese people go to shop at a. Chinese grocery store: deterministic way of thinking space as the cause, space and human behavior is however reciprocal, this is happening because of geography. Various qualitative methods: they assume that only their ethnicity is shopping at the store, pre-conceived notion: biases, example: poor people understand poor people better. The post-structuralist approach (1980s to present: the world cannot be explained by one theory, discourses meanings that are created through texts to understand the world.
