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GEOG 100 Final review walk throughmaterial Simon Fraser University
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Chapter 5 CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES
- Culture
• Range of activities that characterize a particular group, such as working-class
culture, corporate culture, or teenage culture
• A shared set of meaning that is lived through the material and symbolic practices of
everyday life
· Include values, beliefs, practices, and ideas about religion
• Connections among people, places, and cultures to be social creations
• Can be transformed from both within and outside a particular group
• Material culture
• Also describe a range of practice characterizing a group
· Ex/ Goth
- Cultural geography
• The way space, place, and landscape shape culture at the same time that culture
shapes space, place, and landscape
• Two way relationship
· Culture: ongoing process of producing a shared set of meanings and practices
Geography: the dynamic context within which groups operate to shape those
meanings and practices and form and identity and act
· Ex/ Social media: FB, Twitter…
· Into hybrid creatures with a foot in both the virtual and the real worlds
- Folk culture: as the traditional practices of small groups, especially rural prople with a
simple lifestyle (compare with modern, urban people), who are seen as homogeneous in
their belief systems and practice
• Ex/ Mennonites in Canada
Roma
Popular culture: the practices and meaning systems produced by large groups of people
whose norms and tastes are often heterogeneous and change frequently, often in
response to commercial products
• Ex/ Hip hop
- Sauer rejected environmental determinism as a way of understanding human geography
and saw landscape as the unique product of both cultural and physical processes
• Cultural landscape: a characteristic and tangible outcome of the complex
interactions between a human group – with its own practices, preferences, values,
and aspirations – and a natural environment
• Cultural landsape was a “humanized” version of the natural landscape
· The activities of humans resulted in an identifiable and understandable
alteration of the natural environment
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