SOC 3116 Lecture Notes - Safety Bicycle, Sporting Cyclist

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3116
• Professor: Stephan Larose

Document Summary

Relevant social groups, interpretive flexibility and closure: the. The first cycles reinforced gender roles women could only ride tricycles with a male chaperone. As bicycles became safer and cheaper, more women had access to the freedom they embodied and bicycles came to symbolise female emancipation/liberalisation. Freedom machine" for the early women"s movement: crucial constructivist lesson; the meaning of the technology does not lie in the technology itself, but by the interpretation of its users. Bicycle in the 1870s in 25 years, however, the high wheel was gone. The bigger the wheel the faster you could go, as opposed to the slow of the. Safety bicycle without the invention of the air-filled wheel: its danger was used to impress (women), a macho bicycle", for women and other men, the high-wheeler was an unsafe way to travel. It could easily topple over, resulting in hard fall, and had a habit of throwing people off.