Sociology 2234E Lecture Notes - Flag Of Canada, Homelessness, Georg Simmel

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This lecture is about the social interaction between strangers. Simmel: wrote a famous essay on the stranger in 1908. Simmel was from a small down where everyone knew when a stranger came into town. The wondering merchant came to be the image of the stranger. Simmel came up with the concept of the potential wanderer . There were a few types of female strangers but they were typically absent from literature. The two types of female strangers were 1) street walkers bad girls 2) Anthropologists who were travellers it was unusual for women to get an advanced degree at this time and so there was not much study done on this group. A third type of stranger emerged for study in the 1980s. Three social demographic trends that merged to make the bag lady (stranger) in the. The cheapest housing is often located in the down town area.

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