SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Malvina Reynolds, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 1A06
• Professor: Sandra Colavecchia

Document Summary

Physical geography and our environments we can objective understanding to measure our physical environment. Our subjective understandings and social meanings attached to rural, suburban and urban environments: surburbia can be divisioned in subdivisions and physical uniforms. The houses look the same, the streets look the same, it"s visually uniform. They don"t need to translate into a social understanding of the people living there. Malvina reynolds little boxes (music video: this music video basically looks into how every aspect of the city is all the same. The houses, the people, the citizens, the universities, basically are all the same. Rush subdivisions: it"s about suburbia. It describes what it"s like living in suburbia.