Cultural Geography: Cultural Patterns

What are examples of human characteristics geographers analyze?

• Sociability, uses and activities, access and linkages, comfort and image

• Birth rates, age distributions, languages, religions

• Discrimination, political or economic inequalities, negative stereotypes, prejudice

• Rivers, mountains, vegetation, climate

What is the process of a community coming together and transforming a public space for different activities or events called?

• Cultural patterns

• Xenophobia

• Place making

• Centripetal forces

What are examples of centrifugal forces that divide a group of people?

• Sociability, uses and activities, access and linkages, comfort and image

• Rivers, mountains, vegetation, climate

• Tension and division between citizens, lack of communication, inequalities in society

• Having a common language, strong sense of identity, nationalism

What does a culturally diverse society often lead to?

• A stronger sense of place, increase in the economy, stronger community

• Societies with more centrifugal forces, divided society

• Having a homogeneous united community, discrimination, political or economic inequalities

• Discrimination, political or economic inequalities, negative stereotypes, prejudice

What is the impact of different centripetal and centrifugal forces influenced by?

• Sociability, uses and activities, access and linkages, comfort and image

• Birth rates, age distributions, languages, religions

• Having too many barriers between people, large variety of languages spoken without one common language

• Linguistic, ethnic, and religious factors of a place