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Hans Carol - 5 Stages of Development in Cultural Geography

Hans Carol

Dr. Manishika Jain explains Hans Carol geographical Stages of Development in Cultural Geography.

The lecture explains the 5 stages given by Carol as:

1. Adaptation

2. Domestication

3. Diversification

4. Mechanization

5. Automation

Fundamental problems of human or “cultural” geography: the occupation of the earth by man.

  • Three ways of approaching this problem:
    • by historical description
    • by abstraction and generalization
    • by theoretical formulas.
  • Expressions of civilization is contemplated as influence on the environment as technology
  • Technological advances in the history of mankind can be reduced to five major types:
    • Stage I: adaptation
    • Stage II: domestication
    • Stage III: diversification
    • Stage IV: mechanization
    • Stage V: automation
  • Physical frameworks of human occupation are of fifteen major types derived from the idealized continent and the climate classification system formulated by Köppen.
  • Influence of civilization on the environment, expressed as a matrix made up of five “cultural” variables and fifteen natural variables.

Geographical Stages of Development

Tool Making

Illustration: Tool Making

Technological Revolution

Illustration: Technological Revolution

Human Economic Groups

Illustration: Human Economic Groups

Bobek – Main Stages of Socio-Economic Evolution from Geographical Point

Illustration: Bobek – Main Stages of Socio-Economic Evolution from Geographical Point

Basis of Carol՚s Theory

  • Cultural Geography as study of culture of earth or study of impact of culture on earth՚s shell
  • Apply stronger abstractions to existing terminologies for wider applications

Stages Given by Carol

Illustration: Stages Given by Carol

Adaptation

Domestication

Diversification

Mechanization

Automation

Manishika