GEOG 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Proxemics, Ethnography, Social Media
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Rules of place: the both spoken and unspoken, recognized and unconscious. Conscious because you are in a certain special space. Unconscious because you are used to the environment. Shape the ways we move through them. Comparison between the town of pueblo and the bia day school. Example of how landscape shapes the rules of place. As an ethnographer, he immersed himself into the nightlife culture of the city. He notices that everyone tries to scam one another, compete with another. Three college students- heading to a bar. Men and women are biologically hardwired this way. The individual does not shape the social. It is the geography and corresponding anonymity of the city. Anonymous worlds of strangers: where patrons lack any strong sense of social solidarity with one another. Dense population and the scale of the environment fosters us to behave in certain ways. No one feels accountable in a city.
