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What is Human Geography?

What is Human Geography?. 8/24/09. Why do you think geography is important?. How does it impact your life daily? How has it impacted the lives of many? Ex: Asian Tsunami of 2004 Ex: Hurricane Katrina Ex: Your clothing, footwear, cars?. What is “Human” Geography?.

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What is Human Geography?

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  1. What is Human Geography? 8/24/09

  2. Why do you think geography is important? • How does it impact your life daily? • How has it impacted the lives of many? • Ex: Asian Tsunami of 2004 • Ex: Hurricane Katrina • Ex: Your clothing, footwear, cars?

  3. What is “Human” Geography? The field of Human Geography focuses on how people make places, how we organize space and society, how we interact with each other in places and across space, and how we make sense of others and ourselves in our localities, regions, and the world. The world is a complex and diverse place. Understanding this diversity is the mission of human geography. What does globalization mean to you?

  4. Globalization • A major theme of human geography over time has been the tightening connections of between people in different locations. • Ex: Imagine how long it took for information and goods to get from Spain to the Bahamas compared to today. • Globalization- is a set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships, and heightening interdependence without regard to country borders and spatial obstacles. It is also a set of outcomes that are unevenly distributed and differently manifested across the world.

  5. What about other kinds of Geography? • Physical Geography= the study of physical phenomena on earth. • Ex: Tornadoes, blizzards, earthquakes, weather, Mountains, rivers, erosion • Together, Human and Physical geography make up the two major schools of geography.

  6. The Five Themes of Geography Location- people and things on earth’s surface affect what happens and why. Human-environment interactions- Humans changing environment and the effect of environment on people Region-Phenomena are not evenly distributed on the earth and where these phenomena are distributed defines regions. Place- the unique physical and human characteristics of a point in space. Movement- the mobility of people, goods, and ideas across space.

  7. Two Types of Location • Absolute Location- where something is based on a coordinate system. • Longitude and Latitude • Global Positioning System-a satellite system which allows for people to locate things on the surface of the earth exactly based on Long and Lat. • Relative Location- where something is based on its spatial relationship to something else. • I am two blocks North of my Apartment

  8. Picturing the World Remote Sensing- monitoring earth from a distance with technology that is a distance away from the place being studied. Geographic Information System (GIS)- digitized representations of the environment generated by compiled data.

  9. Regions Formal- a type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena; also called uniform region or homogenous region. Ex: “the majority English speaking countries of the world” Functional- a region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it. Ex: Indianapolis Perceptual/vernacular- a regional that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea or an idea and not as a physically demarcated entity. Ex: “the South”

  10. Culture and Cultural Diffusion Culture- the artifacts of human existence including knowledge, attitudes, and habits shared by a group of people. Made up of cultural traits. Culture Hearth- the location where cultural traits originate. Cultural Traits spread from the hearth through cultural diffusion.

  11. Types of Diffusion Expansion diffusion- the spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area in such a way that the number of those influenced grows continuously larger, resulting in an expanding area of dissemination. Contagious diffusion- The distance-controlled spreading on an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person—analogous to the communication of a contagious illness. Hierarchical diffusion- a form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples. Stimulus diffusion- a form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place. Relocation diffusion- Sequential diffusion process in which the items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as they evacuate the old areas and relocate to new ones.

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