SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Billy Joel, Social Code, Organic Movement
22 May 2017
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Looks at society as being made up of interrelated parts that are all dependent on each other for the well-being of society. Role of class-relations and divisions between working and capitalist classes. Number of causes for gentrification: rise in prices, women are drawn to gentrified neighbourhoods. Thinking about geography and environments, we can measure things like population, population, growth, etc. We attach meanings to our physical environments. Interested in the subjective meanings we attach to our physical environments. Rush, subdivisions (1982, about toronto: describing what living in the suburbs is like for a high school student. If you are growing up in the suburbs, you have to conform or you (cid:449)o(cid:374)"t survive. Reynolds and rush offer a critique of suburbia and how people are all homogenous. He was thinking through cities and how cities are organized (urban planning) Does a fairly decent job in describing some american cities (was trying to describe.
