SOCI 3430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Broken Windows Theory, Visible Minority, Geographical Segregation
16 Mar 2016
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Show the links between institutional racism, inequality, segregation and space. Provide examples for the above from the documentary race-the power of an illusion: When place becomes race broken window theory. Discusses how spaces are organized to sustain unequal relationships and how these relations shape space. Space is a social product, it does not simply evolve. Space is a result of unequal economic relationships shaped by capitalism and class system. Space permits certain actions and prohibits others- spatial practices organize social life: organization of space, organizes practices, as a consequence, it limits the people found in that space. Being the only possessor of the land is not the only source of legitimacy for its use. Those who came later have acquired legitimacy by their labours; by putting the soil under cultivation; by uncovering its natural resources; by building great cities and linking them together with railways, highways .
