GEOG 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Urban Culture, Acculturation, Physical Geography

• School: Towson University
• Department: Geography and Environmental Planning
• Course: GEOG 102
• Professor: Alan P.Marcus

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O definition: shared patterns of learned behaviors. O geography is learned, it is not biological. O a wide range and comprehensive field that studies spatial aspects of human cultures. O the source areas from which radiated ideas, innovations, and ideaologies that change the world beyond. O environmental determinism: the natural environment exclusively shapes humans. O possibilism: people, not the environment shape cultural development. O the composite of human imprints on the earth"s surface. O carl sauer"s defi(cid:374)itio(cid:374): the for(cid:373)s superi(cid:373)posed o(cid:374) the physi(cid:272)al la(cid:374)ds(cid:272)ape (cid:271)y the activities of man. O the process by which a concept, practice, or substance spreads from its points of origin to new territories. O the spreading of an innovation or idea through a fixed population in such a way that the number of those adopting grows continuously larger, resulting in an expanded area of dissemination.