Chapter4 Flashcards
Culture
A way of life of a society’s members, including belief systems, norms, and material practices;
typically refers to language, religion, clothing, foods, forms of settlement, social practices, and so on
that differentiate one group from another. (p. 130)
- published an introductory geography textbook with title “One World Divided”
- “our greatest human achievement (culture) has been responsible for both erecting barriers and sparking conflict between peoples.
american geographer Preston James
cultural regions
Areas having a degree of homogeneity in cultural characteristics; areas with similar
cultural landscapes. (p. 130)
such regions are identified because of the presence of one or more particular cultural characteristics
formally defined regions (formal cultural regions)
4 basic points in delimiting formal cultural regions
- criteria for inclusion, that is,the defining characteristics
- date or time period (since these regions change over time)
- spatial scale
- boundary lines
who identified a total of 26 civilizations as responses to environment?
the historian A.J.Toynbee
what are the principal criterias of Toynbee?
religion and manner in which civilisations has reponded to the environment(“arrested” and “aborted” civil)
who were the first geographers to attempt to delimit world regions?
Russell and Kniffen(1951)
diffusion of European ideas and technologies with European expansion
New World Revolution
whos theory divides world into 7 cultural regions each a product of a long evolution of human-land relations?
Russell and Kniffen(1951)
what is the biggest problem with looking at the world at a very large scale ( as in Russell and Kniffen`s theory)?
the region is too numerous or too superficial to be helpful
how may regions can North America be divided into on the basis of physical and economic differences?
(this map focuses on broad regional themes rather than on specific criteria and recognizes that the border between the USA and Canada is not only geographic division).
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First effective settlement
A concept based on the likely importance of the initial occupancy of an
area in determining later landscapes. (p. 133)
regionalization of USA explicitly based on the concept of _____?
First effective settlement
Who demarcates 5 regions in USA and what are those?
- Zelinsky
2. west, middle west, south, midland and New England(these are the divisions by source of culture).