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Quiz von Monty Leaman, aktualisiert more than 1 year ago
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What is the defintion of Structure (the other is agency)?
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Structuralists. Society as an entity, individuals are merely part of the structure of society. Society determines the thoughts and actions of individuals
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Humanists. Society is created by individuals, society is nothing more than the sum of all the individual members. The actions of individuals determine society
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Which approach was empiricist; focusing on empirical observations over theoretical statements?
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Spatial science
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Structuralism
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What approach ignored structures of various sorts that constrained and shaped human actions over space, which could not see causes beyond surface appearances; not socially responsible?
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Spatial Science
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Structuralism
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How did Feminist Glossary of Human Geography, 1999, define Structuralism? (The other is not a quote but still a definition of Structuralism)
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'A widely used term in the social sciences and humanities referring to explanations and analyses that focus on the abstract or formal structures that are the invisible logics underpinning social organisation and language'
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'Involves moving beneath the visible and conscious designs of human beings to expose enduring and underlying structures. Importantly, these could not be measured but only exposed through a series of purely intellectual operations'
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What was interested in the underlying structures that determine the operation of different modes of production; which can be theorised by intellectual effort. their existence is neither visible nor measurable, although the effects are empirically evident?
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General Structuralism
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Structural Marxism
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Who were the two founder of Marxism in the 19thC - interested in 'historical materialism' focusing on the economic structure of society. This person was interested in the history of these changing economic structures, hence historical materialism?
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Karl Marx
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Friedrich Engels
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Are the following quotes correctly combined with the geographer who said them?
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Engels: 'Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it had acquired the occult ability to add value to itself'
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Engels: 'Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social change is impossible without feminine upheaval- social progress can be measured exactly by the position of the fair sex'
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Marx: 'From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilisation'
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Marx: 'An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory'
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Yes. They are correctly matched with the geographer
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No. They are not correctly matched with the geographer
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Which approach was related to production. Materialist: interested in the economic structure of society, and how these structures work to make society the way it is. Identified four modes of production: Asiatic, Ancient, Feudal and modern Bourgeois. Had internal contradictions eventually causing a new mode of production to be forged. The next mode of production was communism'
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Structuralism
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Marxism
Frage 9
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Radical geographers saw patterns of inequality in urban areas. Some geographers explained this through Marxist ideas. What were these ideas?
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The capitalist system divides society up into classes which were highly unequal in terms of wealth, property and power
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Most fundamental division was between capital and labour
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Owners of the means of production made profit, or surplus
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All of the above
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The appropriation of surplus value is what type of concept (it cannot be seen but we can measure its effects)?
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Regional concept
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Possibilism concept
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Structuralist concept
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Which of the following is an example of the impact Structural Marxism had on geography?
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Impacted historical geography: e.g. 'the study of the transition from feudalism to capitalism and the rise of industrial capitalism'
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Impacted economic geography: studying regional inequality in industrial restructuring
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Impacted development geography: third world studies
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Impacted urban geography: the inequalities inherent in contemporary urban life
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All of the above
Frage 12
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There was surprisingly little geographical research undertaken in the 1970s with an overtly structuralist framework
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True
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Flase
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The most extreme structuralist positions were untenable
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True
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False
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Structuralism was very able to deal with individual human actions
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False
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True
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Structuralism is a post-positivist philosophy
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True
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False
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Structuralists and Humanists agree on the relative significance of structure and agency in human affairs
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False
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True
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Structuralist argue that there are invisible but powerful structures that condition the conduct of everyday life. Which are only measurable by their effects
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True
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False
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Structural Marxism draws on Marx's historical materialism to argue that one of the most powerful structures is the economy
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True
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False
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Structuralism was praised because its most extreme positions were attainable
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False
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True
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Marxist thinking had no lasting impact on geographical thinking
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False
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True
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