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Human Lecture Four: Humanism

Human Lecture Four: Humanism

Pregunta 1 de 12

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From which approach did key criticisms of Structural Marxism come from?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Positivism

  • Humanism

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Pregunta 2 de 12

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According to humanists, structural marxism wrongly gives macro-scale social structures autonomy; where people are seen as passive and conservative. It was impossible to marry theory and empirical work successfully

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • True

  • False

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Pregunta 3 de 12

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Which of the following are humanistic critiques of spatial science

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Human patterns and processes cannot be determined by geometric logic

  • Spatial logics of location theory and locational analysis do not satisfy account for human interaction

  • Spatial science treated people as dots on a map, statistics or numbers

  • Spatial science was incapable of addressing real world problems

  • All of the above

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Pregunta 4 de 12

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The Dictionary of Human Geography defines which approach as 'an approach to human geography distinguished by the central and active role that gives to human awareness and human agency, human consciousness and human creativity'

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Positivism

  • Environmental determinism

  • Humanism

  • Structuralism

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Pregunta 5 de 12

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Which of the following is not a key aspect of humanism

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Macro-scale economic and social structures are central to human activity and behaviour

  • Stresses the role of human beings perceiving, interpreting and shaping their surroundings

  • The world is nothing but the sum of human experiences

  • Deliberate attention is paid to the geographer as an individual

  • We have no transparent, objective encounter with the material world, only an encounter that is mediated through our minds

  • Undermines the assumptions that the researcher holds a privileged position of objective insight into whatever they are studying

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Pregunta 6 de 12

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Phenomenology (Edward Husserl 'to know the world is to know oneself'. Existentialism (we can never get to the real essence of anything). Hermeneutics (everything is subject to interpretation). Are all philosophical influences on what geographical approach?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Humanism

  • Positivism

  • Structuralism

  • Structural Marxism

  • Possibilism

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Pregunta 7 de 12

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Humanistic geographers refined their ideas about space and cam to terms with the idea of what?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Place

  • Spatiality

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Pregunta 8 de 12

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Who identified three major elements of place (Locale- settings, Location- the geographical area encompassing the setting and Sense of place- the local structure of feeling)?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Agnew

  • Agnus

  • Angus

  • Agenew

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Pregunta 9 de 12

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What is the literal meaning of 'topophilia' (which refers to the entire range of imaginative experiences that relate individuals and groups to the places that are significant to them; central to our understanding of how geography works in the popular imagination- in representation of place in art, literature and words)?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Love of place

  • Love of space

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Pregunta 10 de 12

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Who of the following is one of the humanistic geographers that explored the idea that people's sense of personal and cultural identity is intimately bound up with place identity; explored using concept of life worlds and landscape representation?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Anne Buttimer

  • Anne Butadmire

  • Anne Bust

  • Anne Fattimer

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Pregunta 11 de 12

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Which Canadian geographer attempted to understand everyday life in deprived areas of Philadelphia using humanistic approaches?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • David Ley

  • David Hey

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Pregunta 12 de 12

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Which one of the following was not a critique of humanistic geography?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • It relied too much on theory

  • It ignored humanistic reflections in poetry and art

  • It ran the risk of reducing everything to the individual and ignoring the ideas, beliefs, values and shared identity claims that bind human groups together

  • It ignored the way an individual's actions can be affected by things over which they have little control

  • Macro-scale social structures were wrongly given autonomy

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