SA 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Favela, Gentrification, Eva Air

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 101
• Professor: Natasha Ferenczi

Document Summary

Using the concept of culture to understand everyday life in favela (week 6, october 11th, 2016) Attending to anomalies, points of disagreement between people. A commitment to attempting to understand behaviours of beliefs for the purpose, function, or meaning they have to people in the societies in which we find them. Use relativism as a tool to operationalize questions to avoid bias. Never discussing something as odd as it is a refusal of analysis. Basic rule is everything a person/group does is logical from their point of view. Knock out ned tried to stay out of the gang life however after tragic events to his girlfriend and brother, it spiraled him into the life of the gang. Refers to a surge of more affluent residents moving to an area, thereby increasing property value (often renovating/building) and displacing man lower income families and businesses, often followed by a market reaction to new customer demand (hipsters)