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• Duality (of structure)
  ...ion theory argues that social structures are the medium and the outcome of human agency. All social practices are carried out under specific structural cond ...e emancipation of women, the roles of men and women were set in the social system. The man of the house was supposed to earn the money and his wife should ta
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• Humberto Maturana
  ...ed Alroe, 2002, pp. 41-42), understood as any human being operating from a system and in the language.) Subsequently, Maturana studied the activity of a directional sensory organ's cell, with the scientist Jerome Lettvin fr
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• Karl Marx
  ...e of capitalist societies . Yet desires for status and power exist in many human beings, they tend to surface. According to Marx it is the task of the state ...porary world. (Aitken & Valentine, 2009: 58) Production is the activity of human beings working in the natural environment to modify it to meet their needs.
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• Michel Foucault
  ... work shifted away from sexuality per se to the more general notion of the human as the subject of desires. His studies of Christianity led him to character ...odern Western societies took on board the fundamental biological fact that human beings are a species. This is what I have called biopower"'' (Foucault. (2
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• Paul Vidal de la Blache
  ...rgins for work of transformation rather than definite, rigid boundaries on human activities (Cloke,Philo,Sadler, 1991,pp.64). ...standards necessary to acquire an existence in a given area. The [[social system]] created by a group of people are closely related to the methods that are
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• Regionalisation
  ...re-given fact, it is that what humans make of it. And they are helpful for human beings to make sense of the world around them. This notion is developed by ...tchen, the bathroom and the living room. Examples of zoning for a temporal activity are that there is a division between day and night, a division in weeks, mo
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• Sign
  The word sign has various meanings. This section is about language as a system of signs. ...his Swiss linguistic is known as the ´father of modern linguistics´. For human geography, not his extensive linguistic work, but his view on [[representat
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• Central Place Theory
  ...o explain the number, size and location of human settlements in an certain system. Hereby, there’s the assumption that the concentration of large populatio ...rimary area, which have a high centrality with more connections and a high activity per connection.
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• Interobjectivity
  ...ed the interobjective networks. This is the relation between human and non-human * Latour, B. (1996), On interobjectivity. In: Mind, culture and activity. Volume 3, number 4. Retrieved from Scribd.com
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• Heterogeneous systems
  ...pproach the heterogeneous systems as a self- referential and –organizing system. This means that these systems can work on their own (Noe & Fjelsted Alrøe ...eory to See Farm Enterprises as Self-organizing systems. ''Cybernetics And Human Knowing. Vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 34-48''
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• Behavior vs. action
  ...isms around as well as the physical environment. It is the response of the system or organism to various stimuli or inputs, whether internal or external, con Campbell writes in his book 'Seven Theories of Human Society': action is an activity with intentions, which requires awareness (consciousness) of the actor. (p.
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• Contextuality
  ...life is embedded in a series of circumstances, that affect it. "All social activity, is formed in three conjoined moments of difference: temporally, structural ...tuality as inherently involved in the connection of social integration and system-integration; of face-to-face interaction and more extensive relations of me
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