“Human geography is not just about describing the spatial manifestations of the economy and society; it is about explaining how space transforms and shapes societies and social processes” (Daniels, et al., 2005). Discuss, drawing on at least two substantive areas of economic geography. Human geography is a “major field of geography that is primarily concerned with the ways in which place, space and environment are both the condition and partly the consequence of human activities” (Gregory et al. 2009 P 350) and therefore in accordance with Daniels et al. In this statement it can be said that human geography actually transforms and shapes societies. To illustrate how “space is transformed and shapes societies and social processes” through human geography (Daniels et al. 2005); Within this essay I will focus on the effect of human geography on society from an economic perspective and in particular from both aspects of consumption and globalization. Economic geography is an important aspect of human geography that has changed rapidly since the 1960s, where there was a focus on location analysis. Economic geography in the 1960s and 1970s was focused on the scientific analysis of location (Fawn 2009) at a time when consumption was changing rapidly due to Henry Ford. Fordism has been described as "a model of economic expansion and technological progress based on mass production: the manufacture of standardized products in enormous volumes using special machinery and unskilled labor" (Tolliday and Zeitlin 1987 P 1-2). industrial but then was adopted in various sectors of the economy. The way people began to consume has also changed with the introduction of mass consumption...... middle of paper ...... in the world has increased rapidly in In recent times, most people and societies around the world have been affected in some way by globalization. However, how globalization is progressing and whether it is beneficial or not is up for debate and this is what economic geographers are interested in. Consumption is central to how geographies are established and experienced in society and how they are situated in space and place. The way we consume is also advancing and has been completely transformed, as can be seen through the infiltration of e-commerce into society, and consumption itself has been greatly influenced by globalization. The geography of the world economy regarding globalization and consumption always requires continuous research since the effects that various societies have on each other transcend geographical boundaries.