GEOG 143 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Food Policy, Social Capital, Memphis, Tennessee
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Lines of difference, the social and spatial construction of difference and. Difference is not natural but society decides who is different. The role of institutions, companies, and media plays on the construction of difference / identities. The space where we live is actively involved in the construction of who we are. Institutions of governments de ne particular social groups. De nition and categorization which government and other institutions engage in. Not xed and vary by geographic and temporal contexts. One of the powerful tools of government is the de nition and categorization of social groups. Us census 2010 and earlier forms. Processes of categorizing and naming and exercise of power. Identi cation with space helps construct social identities. I. e. how space constructs a home pictures on the wall, family and religious relics. Social identities and space as mutually constituted and intertwined. - social networks - religious, cultural, race, and age, cast.
