SOC363H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Track Geometry, Mental Disorder, Invisible Hand
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Social contexts are the layers of the social realities in which we are embedded. Specifically, they are memberships in social units shared with others (ex. Students within a class within a university within a community within a nation) How do you know what a social context is: members are: Boundary definitions of the context are possible - clear rules stating qualifications for membership. Note the different layers of social context involved: Individual - family - work - neighbourhood - community - region - nation. Spatial: the physical boundaries that define the neighbourhood, the container for social interaction among residents. Structural: the socioeconomic and more general social inequalities across neighbourhoods, relating to advantage vs. disadvantage - implies some internal homogeneity. Social class of the neighbourhood, level of segregation, low levels of public resources, high crime, income inequality, crowding, pollution. Social: the context of the interaction within the neighbourhood, and accompanying norms, culture, and shared values and expectations: ex.
