SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eric Hobsbawm, Chartism, Public Space
15 Jul 2016
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Man and son playing hockey on streets get charged b/c neighbors garden keeps getting ruined with their balls. Informal recreation tends to get ignored in favor of an emphasis on the commercial products of mass media. Features sport, which the relationship to culture is questioned. Not allowed to play on any part of the said highways to the annoyance of any passenger. Tension between democratic or popular will and corporate control who owns/produces the space in which we live our lives. Economic, spatial, social change during the industrial revolution(1839- 1830: britain went through rapid and dramatic changes. Anyone could participate in games, dances, and entertainments. Took place on shared lands by the community as a whole. Nostalgia represented as somehow purer and more wholesome and community-minded than tv or video games. Preindustrial recreation more active than contemporary entertainment (creativity & physical effort of participants)
