SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Affordable Housing, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Anomie
21 Mar 2017
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Absence of social solidarity in cities: a(cid:374)o(cid:374)y(cid:373)ous people (cid:449)ho do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) ea(cid:272)h other. Role of class-relations and divisions between working and capitalist classes. Malthus: population growth would exceed the amount of food available to feed people. Marx: argued that capitalists need excess population, benefits capitalists, want to pay people the lowest possible wages, job competition, higher demand for goods and services. Application: gentrification: neighbourhood that is economically depressed that becomes transformed, brings up property values, more middle class people moving in, renovation of low class neighbourhoods to conform to middle class taste, typically in big cities. Subjective understandings and social meanings attached to rural, suburban, and urban environments. Suburban environment: most subdivisions are architecturally homogenous (uniform, visually uniform. O(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e u(cid:374)ifor(cid:373)ity does(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e to tra(cid:374)slate to a(cid:374) o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e perspe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e of the residents. Social construction of people living in the suburbs is like the houses: all the same, look the same and they are all conforming.
