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AQA A-level Human geography: Changing places
Terms in this set (100)
What is place? A space with meaning
- Location
What are the 3 aspects of place? - Locale
- Sense of place
What is location? Where a place is on a map / Its geographical co-ordinates
- Physical and social landscape
What is locale?
- A place as a setting for particular practices that mark it out from other places
- Personal and emotional attachment to a place
What does sense of place mean? - Varies for each person
- Subjective
What can sense of place be? Positive or negative
Why can a persons sense of place change Due a change in circumstances
over time?
Sense of place is ... Subjective
- Near places
- Far places
What are the four categories of place?
- Experienced places
- Media places
A place that is located geographically close
What is a near place?
- Due to everyday experiences
What is a far place? A place that is distant
What is the shrinking world effect? Far places seeming closer
What has lead to the shrinking world Cheaper air travel
effect?
- Influenced by people visiting it
What is an experienced place?
- A place where people have spent time in
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- Not experienced or not physically been to
What is a media place? - More with globalisation
- Creates a strong sense of place
- Feel unsafe
What is an outsider perspective? - Don't feel they belong
- Excluded by society
- Never experienced a place
What are the two types of outsiders?
- Feel excluded from a place by society / Unspoken boundaries
- Have certain ideas towards places they haven't experienced
What is their perception of place like?
- Only have a limited perception through the media
- Feel safe
What is an insider perspective? - Belong there
- Welcomed
- They have experienced them first hand
If a person has an insider perspective, this
- Sense of familiarity
means that ...
- Share common values
Physical methods put into place in order to prevent certain people from being in a
What is social exclusion?
particular place
What is an example of social exclusion? Local councils have put bars in the middle of benches to deter homeless people
- Investment decisions
Why don't people value insider and
- Tourism
outsider perspectives?
- Residential choices
Who is most likely to oppose Insiders
developments?
Why are insiders most likely to oppose - Feels like they belong and identify with their area as they have experiences there
developments? - Strong sense of place ➡ Don't want anything jeopardising that
- Everyday experiences
How do insiders develop a sense of place? - Feel more comfortable as used to the environment and associate it with
experiences
- Discovering places
How do outsiders develop a sense of
- Comparing to their experiences in other places
place?
- Grow attachment by uncovering
What does positionality refer to? It refers to the factors that influence how we perceive a place
What does the term of being "out of place" Doesn't always refer to a location, it can be due to them not fitting in within a certain
mean? society
Meaning + Space .. Place
- Descriptive approach
What are the 3 approaches to place? - Social constructionist approach
- Phenomenological approach
The idea that the world is a set of places and each place can be studied and is
What is the descriptive approach to place? distinct
- Each place has a distinct character
A place is seen as a product of a particular set of social processes occurring at a
What is the social constructionist approach
particular time
to place?
- History makes a place
What is the phenomenological approach to - Focuses on how an individual experiences a place
place? - Highlights personal relationship between person and place
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AQA A-level Human geography: Changing places
Terms in this set (100)
What is place? A space with meaning
- Location
What are the 3 aspects of place? - Locale
- Sense of place
What is location? Where a place is on a map / Its geographical co-ordinates
- Physical and social landscape
What is locale?
- A place as a setting for particular practices that mark it out from other places
- Personal and emotional attachment to a place
What does sense of place mean? - Varies for each person
- Subjective
What can sense of place be? Positive or negative
Why can a persons sense of place change Due a change in circumstances
over time?
Sense of place is ... Subjective
- Near places
- Far places
What are the four categories of place?
- Experienced places
- Media places
A place that is located geographically close
What is a near place?
- Due to everyday experiences
What is a far place? A place that is distant
What is the shrinking world effect? Far places seeming closer
What has lead to the shrinking world Cheaper air travel
effect?
- Influenced by people visiting it
What is an experienced place?
- A place where people have spent time in
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- Not experienced or not physically been to
What is a media place? - More with globalisation
- Creates a strong sense of place
- Feel unsafe
What is an outsider perspective? - Don't feel they belong
- Excluded by society
- Never experienced a place
What are the two types of outsiders?
- Feel excluded from a place by society / Unspoken boundaries
- Have certain ideas towards places they haven't experienced
What is their perception of place like?
- Only have a limited perception through the media
- Feel safe
What is an insider perspective? - Belong there
- Welcomed
- They have experienced them first hand
If a person has an insider perspective, this
- Sense of familiarity
means that ...
- Share common values
Physical methods put into place in order to prevent certain people from being in a
What is social exclusion?
particular place
What is an example of social exclusion? Local councils have put bars in the middle of benches to deter homeless people
- Investment decisions
Why don't people value insider and
- Tourism
outsider perspectives?
- Residential choices
Who is most likely to oppose Insiders
developments?
Why are insiders most likely to oppose - Feels like they belong and identify with their area as they have experiences there
developments? - Strong sense of place ➡ Don't want anything jeopardising that
- Everyday experiences
How do insiders develop a sense of place? - Feel more comfortable as used to the environment and associate it with
experiences
- Discovering places
How do outsiders develop a sense of
- Comparing to their experiences in other places
place?
- Grow attachment by uncovering
What does positionality refer to? It refers to the factors that influence how we perceive a place
What does the term of being "out of place" Doesn't always refer to a location, it can be due to them not fitting in within a certain
mean? society
Meaning + Space .. Place
- Descriptive approach
What are the 3 approaches to place? - Social constructionist approach
- Phenomenological approach
The idea that the world is a set of places and each place can be studied and is
What is the descriptive approach to place? distinct
- Each place has a distinct character
A place is seen as a product of a particular set of social processes occurring at a
What is the social constructionist approach
particular time
to place?
- History makes a place
What is the phenomenological approach to - Focuses on how an individual experiences a place
place? - Highlights personal relationship between person and place
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