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Nov 1, 2016 · In this paper, we analyse debates regarding the strange and the stranger. In critiquing these debates in geography and the social sciences, we argue that the stranger as a term is often taken for granted and implies assumed knowledge.
- Lucy Jackson, Catherine Harris, Gill Valentine
- 2017
Oct 19, 2020 · Culture 1 is used when the purpose of enquiry is to find out how social learning influences evolutionary dynamics across the animal kingdom; when asking how social learning contributes to behavioural adaptation, interacts with genetic processes, and semi-detaches animals from ecological constraints.
Jul 20, 2020 · To address this issue, I introduce a p-model to understand culture as a system of people, places, and practices, for a purpose such as enacting, justifying, or resisting power.
Feb 26, 2013 · Specifically, cultural ecology denotes the habitually embedded adaptive practices and behaviors that have coevolved in the relations between humans and their nonhuman worlds; human ecology denotes systems of bidirectional interactions, mutual influences, and dynamics of change within human societies and their environments.
- Inadequate Conceptions of Culture
- Levels of Analysis and Fallacies to Avoid
- Culture and Related Terms
[There are] at least six mutually related ideas about culture that we call inadequate. These ideas are often found in the writings and practice of individuals, including those in conflict resolution who, borrowing an outmoded anthropological view of culture, seek to use a cultural approach in their work. Culture is homogenous. This presumes that a ...
Many of the studies to be discussed in this book will compare characterizations of particular national cultures with the average behaviour of a small sample of subjects drawn from within those cultures. In other words, we may find ourselves asserting that the collectivism of, say, Indonesian national culture causes a particular group of Indonesian ...
Culture and Nation In everyday language, people commonly treat culture and nation as equivalent terms. They are not. Nation is a political term referring to a government and a set of formal and legal mechanisms that regulate the political behavior of its people. These regulations often encompass such aspects of a people as how leaders are chosen, b...
1. FOCUS QUESTIONS. • In general, how does culture provide for humans? • What are the meanings of the terms culture, subculture, ethnicity, co-culture, subculture, subgroup, and race? • What are some of the major issues in today’s cultural contact zones? Defining Culture and Identities. Regulators of Human Life And Identity.
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As useful as The Dictionary of Human Geography is, this Critical Dictionary of Key Concepts in Cultural Geography offers the student of cultural geography so much more, yet importantly in the same accessible style, despite the complexities of the more sustained arguments presented.
