Cultural Geography

Fall 2004

Chapter 2 Roots and Meaning of Cultures

Homework 2

Due September 21, 2004

1) At the Web Site for the course text (you will have to have a textbook password), complete the following exercises:

1. Quiz

The web site:

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072826886/information_center_view0/

After you answer the questions you will be given the option to email me the results (bottom of page)

2) Cultural Realm: Your answers to should be emailed to me. Bring everything to class for discussion.

Here is some help: http://www.tesarta.com/www/resources/library/culturetraits.html

1. Review and illustrate the definition, content, and means of transmittal of a culture through an example of a culture complex. Describe a culture including traits, complexes, regions and realms. Develop a chalkboard table detailing the subsystems of culture and their respective interconnected traits. (Hint- the US is a “car culture.”) For this exercise, choose another culture or trait of US culture. You can even use a fictional culture- like Star Trek.

2. Using the ideas developed with the class in Topic #1, direct attention to the map of culture realms (Figure 2.4), select two or three widely contrasting “cultures,” and develop a chalkboard table of similarities and differences. Discuss the interlocking nature of the separate cultural composites revealed by the table.