culture

On Friday in Human Geo, Demetri taught the class again and I learned a lot. We talked a lot about culture. Culture is the body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together decide the certain traditions of a group of people. We learned there are two different types of culture; what people care about and what people take care of. Geographers study these both to figure out why main ideas and values produce a certain culture in a particular place and to figure out the production of material wealth, including clothing, food, and shelter that humans need for survival. We started talking about the topic, "why are different places similar?" We talked about scale which is the relationship between the portion of the Earth being studied and Earth as a whole. This is related to globalization which is a force/process that involves the entire world and results in making something world wide in scope.