Divided Cities - Sociology of the City - Lecture Slides, Slides of Sociology

Download Divided Cities - Sociology of the City - Lecture Slides and more Slides Sociology in PDF only on Docsity! Sociology of the City Divided Cities: Stratification, Inequality & Spatial Segregation docsity.com Urban Inequality • Community Transformed or Community Lost • Urban Cosmopolitans or Urban Mass? • Where does inequality fit in? docsity.com The Commodification of Urban Relations and Social Space • Commodification of Labour - Social Atomism & Self Interest (Marx & Engels) • Commodification of Social Space – the interaction between the marketisation of labour and housing creates a situation where the city landscape is shaped by market relations • Uneven Development & Social Polarisation • Laissez Faire & Social Darwinism docsity.com Classic Studies of Early Urban Inequality 19th Century ‘Pioneers’ • UK: • Charles Booth • Henry Mayhew • Joseph Rowntree • Friedrich Engels • USA: • Jacob Riis • Thorstein Veblen • Jane Addams docsity.com Between Factory & Landlord: Inequality in the Industrial City • Social Strife: • Work/Trade Unionism • Poor Housing/Rent Strikes (UK: 80-90% rent privately) • Reform: • Workplace Legislation • Housing Reform – public issue from 1840’s – first municipal housing post WWI – large scale public housing post WWII • The ‘Hungry Thirties’ & WWII docsity.com • Stigma, Moral Panic & Stereotyping • ‘Blocking’ • ‘Tipping Point’ • Class, Underclass & Ethnicity (Wilson) • Multiculturalism Ethnic & Racial Divisions docsity.com The Gendered City • Heteropatriarchal Environment • Masculine and Feminine Space • The separation of home & work • City & Suburb • Gentrification/ Workplace Change & De- gendering • Fear (Valentine, 1992) docsity.com Inequality & the Late Modernity • Return to ‘Classical’ Economics • Deregulation & Privatisation (Workplace & Public Services) • Intervention in economy (local and international) limited to deregulating markets and promoting privatisation • ‘Finance Unbound’ – shareholder value (Hutton) • ‘Trickle Down’ & ‘Opportunity’ • Castells - Shift in proportion of surplus between capital and labour- flexibility, outsourcing, expanded labour market (women), offshoring/ inshoring, trade unions: Demise of Collective Consumption – shrinking welfare state : Fiscal austerity & redistribution • Re-marketization of Housing docsity.com