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Andy Modell

wikipedia knows all - 0 views

  • Human geography is a branch of geography that focuses on the study of patterns and processes that shape human interaction with the built environment, with particular reference to the causes and consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity on the Earth's surface. Contents [hide]
  • Human geography is a branch of geography that focuses on the study of patterns and processes that shape human interaction with the built environment, with particular reference to the causes and consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity on the Earth's surface.
  • Human geography broadly differs from physical geography in that it has a greater focus on studying intangible or abstract patterns surrounding human activity and is more receptive to qualitative research methodologies. It encompasses human, political, cultural, social and economic aspects of the social sciences. While the major focus of human geography is not the physical landscape of the Earth (see physical geography), it is not possible to discuss human geography without going into the physical landscape, on which human activities are being played out and environmental geography is emerging, as an important link between the two. Human geography is methodologically diverse, using both qualitative methods and quantitative methods, including case studies, survey research, statistical analysis and model building, among others. Thematically, human geography may be concerned with an array of human enterprises, from villages and cities, schools, health, commerce and trade, to name a few. The spatial human architecture of a variety of institutions and practices unites these entities within the discipline. For example, a human geographer might be concerned with the geographic patterns of communicable diseases, school performance in rural versus urban school districts or the rise of innovative technology clusters.
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    Not amazing, but an adequate definition
kelsey martin

Maps of United States - 0 views

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    Variety of US maps marking different statistic
Susie Pickett

Population Reference Bureau - 0 views

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    One of THE best population sites: data, pamphlets, and MUCH more
Jim Pickett

An Online Atlas of the Millennium Development Goals-THE WORLD BANK - 0 views

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    A very useful and interesting display of data regarding Millennium Development Goals, providing both detailed scaled maps and cartograms...
Jim Pickett

Should the Census Offer 'Negro' as an Identity Option? - TIME - 3 views

  • the flash point represents a much larger theme: the often contentious way the Census both reflects and forges our evolving understanding of race.
  • 2000 Census, more than 56,000 people wrote in Negro to describe their identity — even though it was already on the form
  • Consider that in a 2006 study of 138 censuses from around the world, New York University sociologist Ann Morning found that only 15% of those asking about ancestry or national origin used the term race. Almost all of those that did were former slave economies.
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  • only the U.S. asked about Hispanic ethnicity in a stand-alone question.
  • could unintentionally reinforce the view that while ethnicity is a product of culture and society, race represents something else
    • Jim Pickett
       
      This represents a significant risk of "racialization"
  • The first Census, in 1790, explicitly asked about only one race: white.
  • The antidiscrimination laws written in the 1960s and the affirmative-action policies that followed relied on Census data to determine if minorities were underrepresented in any number of realms, from home sales to small-business loans.
  • One of the possible changes the Census is testing during the 2010 count is allowing respondents to check more than one box not just for race but for Hispanic origin as well.
  • Another change under review is letting people who check "white" or "black" to write in more specific information afterward.
  • For the time being, write-in responses still often need to be shoehorned into broader categories for the purpose of following certain laws based on official statistics.
  • Census categories reflect perceptions. But they also forge them.
    • Jim Pickett
       
      And THAT is the argument for racialization
Jim Pickett

World DATA Clock - 0 views

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    Cool visualization of global population data, with some US specific data as well.
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