SOCI 364 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Structuration Theory, White Flight, Environmental Determinism
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Jeffery kidder (2009) - appropriating the city: space, theory, and bike messengers: There is lack of study on the built environment and social relations --> especially how bike messengers are omitted from that study (as they are considered a unique entity) Re-iterates that post-ww2 suburbia was motivated by fear of the inner city, thus lead to massive white flight to the countryside. Lefebvre --> believes that space shapes how we think and our actions, it has three dimensions. Space is an experienced set of material practices (e. g. a mother cooking in the family kitchen) Meaning is also given to spaces/those practices (e. g. the mother has a nurturing role whilst the father becomes the wage earner) Also believes that space is not purely determining, but also could be. Gans (impotence of space) --> critiqued against the idea that built environments frame social interactions.
