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Approaches to Geographic Knowledge (Human Approaches) Quiz on Human Lecture Three: Structuralism and Marxism, created by Monty Leaman on 20/05/2017.

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Human Lecture Three: Structuralism and Marxism

Frage 1 von 20

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What is the defintion of Structure (the other is agency)?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Structuralists. Society as an entity, individuals are merely part of the structure of society. Society determines the thoughts and actions of individuals

  • Humanists. Society is created by individuals, society is nothing more than the sum of all the individual members. The actions of individuals determine society

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Frage 2 von 20

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Which approach was empiricist; focusing on empirical observations over theoretical statements?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Spatial science

  • Structuralism

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Frage 3 von 20

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What approach ignored structures of various sorts that constrained and shaped human actions over space, which could not see causes beyond surface appearances; not socially responsible?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Spatial Science

  • Structuralism

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Frage 4 von 20

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How did Feminist Glossary of Human Geography, 1999, define Structuralism? (The other is not a quote but still a definition of Structuralism)

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 'A widely used term in the social sciences and humanities referring to explanations and analyses that focus on the abstract or formal structures that are the invisible logics underpinning social organisation and language'

  • 'Involves moving beneath the visible and conscious designs of human beings to expose enduring and underlying structures. Importantly, these could not be measured but only exposed through a series of purely intellectual operations'

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Frage 5 von 20

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What was interested in the underlying structures that determine the operation of different modes of production; which can be theorised by intellectual effort. their existence is neither visible nor measurable, although the effects are empirically evident?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • General Structuralism

  • Structural Marxism

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Frage 6 von 20

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Who were the two founder of Marxism in the 19thC - interested in 'historical materialism' focusing on the economic structure of society. This person was interested in the history of these changing economic structures, hence historical materialism?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Karl Marx

  • Friedrich Engels

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Frage 7 von 20

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Are the following quotes correctly combined with the geographer who said them?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Engels: 'Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it had acquired the occult ability to add value to itself'

  • Engels: 'Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social change is impossible without feminine upheaval- social progress can be measured exactly by the position of the fair sex'

  • Marx: 'From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilisation'

  • Marx: 'An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory'

  • Yes. They are correctly matched with the geographer

  • No. They are not correctly matched with the geographer

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Frage 8 von 20

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Which approach was related to production. Materialist: interested in the economic structure of society, and how these structures work to make society the way it is. Identified four modes of production: Asiatic, Ancient, Feudal and modern Bourgeois. Had internal contradictions eventually causing a new mode of production to be forged. The next mode of production was communism'

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Structuralism

  • Marxism

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Frage 9 von 20

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Radical geographers saw patterns of inequality in urban areas. Some geographers explained this through Marxist ideas. What were these ideas?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • The capitalist system divides society up into classes which were highly unequal in terms of wealth, property and power

  • Most fundamental division was between capital and labour

  • Owners of the means of production made profit, or surplus

  • All of the above

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Frage 10 von 20

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The appropriation of surplus value is what type of concept (it cannot be seen but we can measure its effects)?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Regional concept

  • Possibilism concept

  • Structuralist concept

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Frage 11 von 20

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Which of the following is an example of the impact Structural Marxism had on geography?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Impacted historical geography: e.g. 'the study of the transition from feudalism to capitalism and the rise of industrial capitalism'

  • Impacted economic geography: studying regional inequality in industrial restructuring

  • Impacted development geography: third world studies

  • Impacted urban geography: the inequalities inherent in contemporary urban life

  • All of the above

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Frage 12 von 20

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There was surprisingly little geographical research undertaken in the 1970s with an overtly structuralist framework

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • True

  • Flase

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Frage 13 von 20

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The most extreme structuralist positions were untenable

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • True

  • False

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Frage 14 von 20

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Structuralism was very able to deal with individual human actions

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • False

  • True

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Frage 15 von 20

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Structuralism is a post-positivist philosophy

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • True

  • False

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Frage 16 von 20

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Structuralists and Humanists agree on the relative significance of structure and agency in human affairs

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • False

  • True

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Frage 17 von 20

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Structuralist argue that there are invisible but powerful structures that condition the conduct of everyday life. Which are only measurable by their effects

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • True

  • False

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Frage 18 von 20

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Structural Marxism draws on Marx's historical materialism to argue that one of the most powerful structures is the economy

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • True

  • False

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Frage 19 von 20

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Structuralism was praised because its most extreme positions were attainable

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • False

  • True

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Frage 20 von 20

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Marxist thinking had no lasting impact on geographical thinking

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • False

  • True

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