SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Staging Area, Differential Association

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

Video questions: what do you see as we travel down germantown avenue? (types of people, buildings, changes) Middle class professional (white/black) enjoy the upscale cosmopolitan in chestnut hill. Mount erie, more racially mixed and more economically diverse. Chestnuthill, suburban, wealthier estates, storefronts that are well kept, elaborately designed, tailored for leisure goods, health foods, spas etc. Avenue has farmers market and other goods stores. Avenue is a natural continuum, code of civility on one end and code of conduct regulated by threat of violence, code of street on other. People make their own claims on this continuum. Mount erie down germantown, on the flip side mainly a poor zone (zone ii) and less racially/economically diverse. Vernom park (staging area) activites occurring here set stage for activities elsewhere. People of germantown overwhelming committed to civil behavior. Behavior based on trust and rule of law. Sense of violence just below the surface in some pockets of the community.