SLGY 2253 Chapter Notes - Chapter 112-130: Instrumental And Value Rationality, Stranger Danger, Rational Agent
29 Sep 2016
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Just as friendship refers not to a particular person but to the relationship between friends, strangership refers to the form of relationship between strangers. Given that we know proportionately so few people in cities, strangership is the predominant form of urban social relation. Understanding cities means taking both the social and spatial seriously since we are always and everywhere embedded in some sort of social and spatial context. These two perspectives give us a clear and wide ranging lens through which to analyze contemporary urban life. People are guilty of a wide range of immoral and or antisocial behaviours. These judgements claim that cities seem to harbour a level of indifference that veers dangerously close to ruthlessness. The narrative endures because popular opinion holds that cities are indeed cold and heartless. Bystander effect: whereby strangers fail to intervene in situations when another person is in danger in the belief that someone else is likely to do so.
