Topic 4: Factors

Table of Contents

1. Factors: Introduction
2. Factors
3. Factors: concrete and abstract
4. Analysing problems into factors
5. Kinds of factors: qualities
6. Kinds of factors: conditions
7. Kinds of factors: processes
   1. Task 6: Using the Water Cycle to understand problems
   2. Task 7: Factors in historical processes (i)
   3. Task 8: Factors in historical processes (ii)
8. Institutions
9. Exam Questions
10. Initial Problem Revisited
11. Journal Entry: Application Task

Kinds of factors: processes

Processes are perhaps the most important way of understanding and acting upon the world. For example, without the abstract ideas of condensation, precipitation, evaporation, cooling we could not conceptualise the water cycle. Condensation, precipitation evaporation and cooling are all factors in the water cycle.

The Water Cycle