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Human Lecture Three: Structuralism and Marxism

Question 1 of 20

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What is the defintion of Structure (the other is agency)?

Select one of the following:

  • Structuralists. Society as an entity, individuals are merely part of the structure of society. Society determines the thoughts and actions of individuals

  • 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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Question 2 of 20

1

Which approach was empiricist; focusing on empirical observations over theoretical statements?

Select one of the following:

  • Spatial science

  • Structuralism

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Question 3 of 20

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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?

Select one of the following:

  • Spatial Science

  • Structuralism

Explanation

Question 4 of 20

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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)

Select one of the following:

  • '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'

  • '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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Question 5 of 20

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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?

Select one of the following:

  • General Structuralism

  • Structural Marxism

Explanation

Question 6 of 20

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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?

Select one of the following:

  • Karl Marx

  • Friedrich Engels

Explanation

Question 7 of 20

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Are the following quotes correctly combined with the geographer who said them?

Select one of the following:

  • Engels: 'Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it had acquired the occult ability to add value to itself'

  • 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'

  • Marx: 'From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilisation'

  • Marx: 'An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory'

  • Yes. They are correctly matched with the geographer

  • No. They are not correctly matched with the geographer

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Question 8 of 20

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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'

Select one of the following:

  • Structuralism

  • Marxism

Explanation

Question 9 of 20

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Radical geographers saw patterns of inequality in urban areas. Some geographers explained this through Marxist ideas. What were these ideas?

Select one of the following:

  • The capitalist system divides society up into classes which were highly unequal in terms of wealth, property and power

  • Most fundamental division was between capital and labour

  • Owners of the means of production made profit, or surplus

  • All of the above

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Question 10 of 20

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The appropriation of surplus value is what type of concept (it cannot be seen but we can measure its effects)?

Select one of the following:

  • Regional concept

  • Possibilism concept

  • Structuralist concept

Explanation

Question 11 of 20

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Which of the following is an example of the impact Structural Marxism had on geography?

Select one of the following:

  • Impacted historical geography: e.g. 'the study of the transition from feudalism to capitalism and the rise of industrial capitalism'

  • Impacted economic geography: studying regional inequality in industrial restructuring

  • Impacted development geography: third world studies

  • Impacted urban geography: the inequalities inherent in contemporary urban life

  • All of the above

Explanation

Question 12 of 20

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There was surprisingly little geographical research undertaken in the 1970s with an overtly structuralist framework

Select one of the following:

  • True

  • Flase

Explanation

Question 13 of 20

1

The most extreme structuralist positions were untenable

Select one of the following:

  • True

  • False

Explanation

Question 14 of 20

1

Structuralism was very able to deal with individual human actions

Select one of the following:

  • False

  • True

Explanation

Question 15 of 20

1

Structuralism is a post-positivist philosophy

Select one of the following:

  • True

  • False

Explanation

Question 16 of 20

1

Structuralists and Humanists agree on the relative significance of structure and agency in human affairs

Select one of the following:

  • False

  • True

Explanation

Question 17 of 20

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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

Select one of the following:

  • True

  • False

Explanation

Question 18 of 20

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Structural Marxism draws on Marx's historical materialism to argue that one of the most powerful structures is the economy

Select one of the following:

  • True

  • False

Explanation

Question 19 of 20

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Structuralism was praised because its most extreme positions were attainable

Select one of the following:

  • False

  • True

Explanation

Question 20 of 20

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Marxist thinking had no lasting impact on geographical thinking

Select one of the following:

  • False

  • True

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