GGRA02H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Economic Globalization, Cultural Globalization, World-Systems Theory
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Defining geography: our human activity is always spatial. The word organization" points to a broad number of relations including a consideration of economics, culture, politics and other social processes. The word environment should be understood broadly to include a range of different social and physical landscapes and places. Place: why matter, plays a powerful role in defining life chances, provides the settings for people"s daily lives, all processes are grounded in some physical location. Global finance is connected to specific locations in a series of world cities": the particularity of a place affects the character of a range of social, cultural, political, and economic processes. The power of the geographical imagination: emphasizes the interdependence of both places and processes at different scales. Fosters an understanding of the political, economic and cultural processes that define our world-system and the relationship of different regions to one another: allows social and cultural difference and us to understanding the relationship between.
