GEOG 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Moe Williams, Community Policing, Participant Observation
15 Jul 2020
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Politics of positioning/location + rules of place . Person"s positioning will shape experiences of different commercial spaces (such as shopping malls or neighborhood shops), including her/his knowledge of and reactions to the rules of place there. Larger structural issues shape these girls" experiences in the mall (and. Structural issues are: political economic, social, and spatial. Race and class intersect in these girls lives to shape their experiences of the mall. Race-based restrictive covenants- provision in a deed of a house prescribing that it cannot be or must be sold to person of a particular race. Community policing- philosophy of policing that suggests an effort to increase communication between the police and residents of communities to which they are assigned and a forging of cooperative relationships between the two. In 2000, lapd was 46% white, 33% latino, 14% black, 7% asian. Ethnography- description of a culture; description of ways people live and make sense of their worlds (genre of writing)
