ANTH 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Civil Society, Geographical Segregation, Mass Media

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1001
• Professor: Marieka Sax

Document Summary

Everyone is orientated in space, but the ways we understand that (and what we do with or. Ch 2: spatial locations in it) is shaped by cultural ideas & social institutions. Type of activities that happen in that space: public, private, formal, informal, work, leisure, religious, secular . Identification of people interacting in that space: age, gender, class, ethnicity . With fixed/porous boundaries: physical & social boundaries: inside/outside, open/closed, permanent/shifting. E. g: legal vs. socio-economic, voluntary vs. gated. Space: the dimensions of height, depth, & width w/in which all things exist and move. Geography: the nature & relative arrangement of places & physical features. Segregation: the action/state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things. Geographical segregation: where proportions of 2 or more populations are not homogenous throughout a defined space. State: a geopolitical entity w/ a permanent population, defined territory, & a central gov"t that can enter into relations w/ other sovereign states.