ABSTRACT
Geography has always been interested in society, although their association has not always been clear. The early geographers, such as Strabo, contented themselves with describing different social conditions in different places. Their emphasis on the social contrasts between one area and another—usually between Europe and the outer darkness—while sometimes stressing the strange, to the exclusion of differences in day-today life, nevertheless created for geography the vital tradition of differentiating regions as much by their social content as by their physical character.
