• geographers study both definitions of culture.
• culture - what people care about
• specially important cultural values derive from a group's language, religion, and ethnicity
• culture - what people take care of
• the second element of culture of interest is production of material, wealth, such as food, clothing, and shelter that humans need in order to thrive and survive
• scale, space, and connections help geographers help geographers explain why similarities among places and regions do not result from coincidences
• scale is the relationship between the portion of earth being studied and earth as a whole
• globalization is a force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope
• globalization of economy has been created by transitional corporations, something called multinational corporation
• the transitional corporation conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters and principle shareholders are located
• recession that began in 2008 has been called the first global recession. home buyers in the US to sales clerks in Japan were all caught in a web of falling demand and lack of credit