1. Diversity Amid Globalization
Chapter 1 Lecture
Diversity Amid Globalization
6th Edition
Chapter 1: Concepts of World Geography
Concepts of World Geography
Sandra Zupan
University of Kentucky

2. Learning Objectives
Identify the different components of globalization, including their controversial aspects.
List several ways in which globalization is changing world geographies.
Describe the conceptual framework of world regional geography.
Summarize the major tools used by geographers to study Earth’s surface.
Explain the concepts and metrics used to document changes in global population and settlement patterns.

3. Learning Objectives (Continued)
Describe the themes and concepts used to study the interaction between globalization and the world’s cultural geographies.
Explain how different aspects of globalization have interacted with global geopolitics from the colonial period to the present day.
Identify the concepts and data important to documenting changes in the economic and social development of more and less developed countries (MDCs and LDCs). 3

4. Key Concepts Globalization Transnational firms
Areal differentiation versus areal integration
Regions
Cultural landscape
GIS
Demographic transition
Cultural imperialism versus cultural nationalism
Universalizing versus ethnic religions
Geopolitics
Core–periphery model
Economic and social development
Gender equity

5. Converging Currents of Globalization
Increasing interconnectedness
Human and physical environments
Continual reorganization of global and local geographies
Understanding our contemporary world
Challenging
Necessary

6. Economic Globalization
Global communication systems
Transportation systems
Transnational corporations
International financial institutions
Free trade agreements
Market economies
Abundance of goods and services
Economic disparities
International workforce

7. Globalization and Shopping Malls

8. Changing Human Geographies
Cultural changes
Consumer culture
Tensions
Western values
Traditional diets changing
Language
Societal values
Hybridization
Demographic changes
Crime

9. Globalization Within the United States

10. Globalization and Migration

11. Geopolitics and Globalization
International government structures (e.g., United Nations)
Geopolitical integration
Regional organizations (e.g., EU, WTO)

12. The Environment and Globalization
Intensifying environmental problems
Disrupted local ecosystems
Commodification of resources
Displacement of native peoples

13. Controversy About Globalization
Advocates of globalization
Critics of globalization
A middle position

14. Diversity in a Globalizing World
Homogenization
Protection of diversity
Economic unevenness
Flat versus spiky world

15. Geography Matters: Environments, Regions, Landscapes
Areal differentiation
Describe and explain differences between places.
Areal integration
Describe and explain linkages or connections between places.
Scale
Local to global
Complicated linkages

16. Regions
Formal
Functional
Vernacular

17. The Cultural Landscape
Visible, material expression of human settlement
Exhibits great diversity across the globe

18. The Geographer’s Toolbox: Location, Maps, Remote Sensing, and GIS

19. World Regional Geography

20. Population and Settlement

21. Population Growth and Change

22. Population Pyramids

23. The Demographic Transition

24. Global Migration and Settlement
Cities
Urbanized population
Push versus pull factors
Net migration rate

25. Population Density Agricultural landscape, Iowa, United States
Dense settlement, India

26. Cultural Coherence and Diversity
Cultural collisions and hybridization
Colonization
Globalization
Cultural imperialism
Promotion of one cultural system at the expense of another
Cultural nationalism
Protection and defense of a cultural system

27. World Languages

28. World Religions

29. Gender and Globalization
A sociocultural construct
Gender roles

30. Geopolitical Framework
The nation-state
Separatism

31. The Colonial Imprint

32. Global Conflict and Insurgencies
Product of and reaction to globalization
Counterterrorism
Counterinsurgency

33. Economic and Social Development

34. More and Less Developed Countries

35. Indicators of Economic Development

36. Indicators of Social Development

37. Poverty and Mortality
Poverty and deep poverty
Under age 5 mortality

38. Literacy and Gender Equity