GEOG 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Desert Inn, Semiotics, Palace Station
9 Dec 2015
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Main points (1) in addition to understanding how the environment shapes (and is shaped by) people, geographers seek to identify how it is perceived and understood by people. (2) different cultural identities and status categories influence the ways in which people experience and understand their environments, as well as how they are shaped by and able to shape them. (3) landscape serves as a kind of archive of society. Codes signify important information about landscapes, such as whether they are sacred or profane, accessible or off limits, or oriented toward work or play. (6) the emergence of the most recent phase of globalization has occurred in parallel with a transition from modernism to postmodernism. (7) modernism as a historical period embraced scientific rationality and optimism about progress. (8) postmodernism, the name for the contemporary period, revolves around an orientation toward consumption and emphasizes the importance of multiple perspectives.
