page_title: Behavioral geography
section_title: The Role of Linguistics
hierarchical_section_title: Behavioral geography / The Social Construction of Nature / The Role of Linguistics
caption_attribution_description: Raymond Williams At Saffron Walden
context_page_description: Behavioral geography is an approach to human geography that examines human behavior using a disaggregate approach. Behavioral geographers focus on the cognitive processes underlying spatial reasoning, decision making, and behavior. In addition, behavioral geography is an ideology/approach in human geography that makes use of the methods and assumptions of behaviorism to determine the cognitive processes involved in an individual's perception of or response and reaction to their environment.
  Behavioral geography is that branch of human science, which deals with the study of cognitive processes with its response to its environment, through behaviorism.
context_section_description: There are many ways of understanding and interpreting nature. According to Raymond Williams, there are three ways to give meaning to (or define) nature:
  Nature as a quality, character or process (e.g. human nature)
  Nature as a force (e.g. weather)
  Nature as the material world (e.g. the physical environment)
  According to Raymond Williams, language plays a role in how we understand, interpret, and give meaning to nature. This is how multiple truths can be valid at the same time.
caption: Raymond Williams, author of Keywords: A vocabulary of culture and society (1983).
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