Drawing on what you have learnt from the Making Social Lives DVD and Learning Companion 1, outline how material things on City Road favour the activities of some groups of people over others. The groups living on City Road have been shown to value and have conflict with a variety of different material things in their lives, each one personal to their own identity. One of the first business’

PLAN 1250 Intro: essay content (100 words) Para 1: consumer society, Hetherington p19, Staples p10 (200 words) Para 2 : Zygmunt’s ‘seduced/repressed’, Hetherington p25, Hetherington p27, Hetherington p29 (200 words) Para 3: Veblen’s ‘conspicuous consumption’, Hetherington p31 & Susman’s ‘performing-self’, Hetherington p42 (200 words) Para 4: Helena Rimmer/Richard Dodd Audio (200 words) Pa

Figure 1: In the choropleth map, it shows nearly every city (apart from Edinburgh) has increased its population between 0 & 4%, Edinburgh City being the only one that has seen an increase of 8% or more. These observations are based over a ten year period, from 2000 to 2010. Interestingly, the areas that have decreased in population (North & South Ayrshire, Argyll & Bute plus Eilean Star)

This essay is going to discuss City Road and my chosen street Jersey Road for the similarities in the present time and in the past, and also it will be used to discuss how the streets are used in the day and night, the people that use the streets and the activities that occur there. One of the main differences between Jersey Road and City Road is location. Jersey Road is situated in a small mi

The street I have chosen to discuss is King Street in the rural town of Knutsford. It is about one quarter of a mile long a one way street.. Both sides of the street are lined with various shops, specialised boutiques, restaurants, beauty and hairdressing salons. I have decided to study this particular street as it has many differences to City Road and also some similarities. I am going to look a

This essay is going to reflect changes on what I remember of my street from my childhood in the 1980s and how my street differs from that of City Road. Brandon Shopping Centre is the main shopping area of Motherwell. Brandon Shopping Centre is a pedestrian only area. This is totally different to City Road which has heavy traffic at most times of the day. This is just one of the major differences

DD101 TMA 01 Outline some of the ways in which differences and inequalities are made and remade on a street you know. As I walk through Nantwich High Street, I see a small, traditional market town centre. There are the very old buildings that are white with the black wooden beams synonymous with Elizabethan times. (Most of the town burnt down in the great fire of Nantwich in 1583 but there

TMA 01 In light of what you have learned about City Road, describe some of the inequalities on a street which you know. The focus of this essay is to compare the changes in City Road to a small, historic town and show how inequalities in society can be made and remade over time. Similarly it will endeavour to explain how the use of space, the time of day and identity of people or places can mak

Tma 02. Essay Plan. • Introduction quote rubbish amount per year • Mass consumption and supermarkets and higher standards of living • Higher wages, people can spend more • Environmental effects • Recycling items by giving away • Emma Maersk • Conclusion Explore the claim that a consumer society is always a “throw-away” s

Connection between economic growth, wealth, health and happiness Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. What is an economy' 4 2.1 The UK economy 4 2.2 Economic Globalisation 4 3. Economic Growth & Measurement 5 3.1 Growth and Environmental Gains 5 3.2 Environmental Losses and Repair 5 4. National Well-being, Health and Happi

Dean Hancock C368528x Evaluate the claim that when talking about British culture, it is better to talk of cultures British culture. Seen by some to have a deep rooted historical sense of practices and beliefs from within the British Isles, and by others more globally infused and diverse than anywhere on the Earth. W

Evaluate the claim that migrants represent a threat to the UK economy. In recent years their has been a vast influx of migrants to the UK. Migrants do have an effect and impact on the UK economy. The benefits and costs of migrants has been greatly debated. This assignment will focus on who are classed as migrants, as this in its self has been debated and different organisations use different c

Examine and assess the idea that the authority of the state to govern is always contested. The state can be thought of in many terms. Some might say ‘the government’; some might say different institutions such as their school or hospital. The state is less solid and more complex than this. In order to examine and assess the idea that the authority of the state to govern is always being conteste

In light of what you have learned about City Road, describe some of the inequalities on a street which you know. For this assignment I have decided to examine some of the inequalities on the Shore Road in Whiteabbey, a road which is very familiar to me as I have grown up on or close to it for the past twenty four years . This stretch of road is similar to City Road in a number of ways. It pr

TMA 01 With reference to what you have learnt about City Road, outline how material things contribute towards differences on a street which you may know. Plan • Introduction to the Road and description. • Ethnic minority services / And Lack of. • Public access to the Road. • Differences I have observed. Assignment Ìn this TMA I am going to discuss some of the differ

Outline who are the winners and losers in a consumer society According to many social scientists the contemporary western society is a consumer society. A society in which individual status, identity and lifestyle and is not only determined by occupation but by what people buy and how they put to use or dispose of their acquisitions as well as their ability to participate in ‘consuming’. And as

Essay Plan for TMA 02 Outline the view that big Supermarkets both provide and limit choice Introduction I will use the following claims to outline the view that big supermarkets have the power to both provide and limit choices. I aim to use two examples of each argument with assumptions and evidence to summarise. Main Body Limit choice Claim 1 – Supermarkets can restrict choices

Compare and contrast two views of how social order is produced in public spaces. This essay compares and contrasts two views of how social order is produced in public spaces. It starts by looking at what is social order' To get an insight of social order in public spaces it discusses theories by Erving Goffman and Michel Foucault respectively. It then goes on to look at the engineers Coli

Q. Discuss some of the ways differences and inequalities are made on streets of the UK Differences on our UK streets can be looked at by both differences among people - through our social lives and through our material differences. These can include what people value, what their similarities are, what resources they have and if they are equally distributed. My own personal experiences of d

MY STREET The street I have chosen to write about is Christchurch Highstreet, mainly because I have lived there all my life so should know it fairly well (I hope). It started life in about the saxon times. and although didn't have the hangmans noose it had a graveyard close to one end of the street just like in city road (the street dvd), there is now a Waitrose and carpark there. Much of the s

It can very easily be argued that a defining feature of the UK High Street is consumption, and the ability of the individual to participate in it. According to Zygmunt Bauman, the capacity of the population to consume can be separated into two groups – the seduced and the repressed (Bauman, as cited in Taylor et al, 2009). The Seduced are those who are able to participate fully in society, those w

‘Drawing on what you have learned about City Road, outline some of the inequalities on a street that you know’. The main objective of this essay will examine some of the ways that inequalities are made, using a particular road in Britain. Firstly I will highlight the problems faced by both residents and consumers during particular times of the day with competition for space. My second point wi

DD131 TMA 01 P.I With reference to what you have learnt about city road, outline some of the differences across time and space on a street that you know. I will be looking at Uckfield High Street. Uckfield High Street is a busy town centre with a collection of independent retailers and some larger chain stores. It seems to have an eclectic mix of outlets that reflects

Module DD131 Assignment No. TMA01 Drawing on what you have learned about City Road, outline some of the inequalities on a street that you know.. For this assignment piece I have chosen Knutsford, Cheshire and one of its busiest shopping streets; Princess Street; to discuss differences and inequalities when they are compared to City road in Cardiff, with particular reference to the study ma

Drawing on what you have learned about City Road, outline some of the inequalities on a street you know. In this assignment I aim to show how City Road shares the same inequalities as Portland Street. Portland Street is a heavily used road in the city centre it connects Lincoln High Street with Pelham Bridge both are major roads leading in and out of Lincoln City centre. Portland Street has acces

Outline some of the ways in which inequalities have been made and remade in south wales. 'Inequalities' is a term used by social scientists to explain the uneven distribution of major resources that happens within a society, or sometimes between societies. To outline inequalities that have been made and remade in south wales I will use the Social Sciences, Making Social Lives DVD and also the

Outline and analyse Rita Felski’s argument in ‘the invention of everyday life’. I will outline Rita Felski’s argument in the invention of everyday life and also discuss how her argument agrees and disagrees with other sociologist such as Lefebvre. Rita Felski’s argument in the invention of everyday life is about the cyclical and linear structure of everyday life, and also how women are associate

‘To have an in-depth understanding of social justice we need different types of evidence.’ Select examples of evidence from the Surveillance DVD and the Social Justice book to discuss the accuracy of this claim Social justice: A concept that there should be an even handed distribution of social resources, or, the consideration of processes of social injustice' Either could be used to argue

Write a review of Sydney’s Safe City Strategy 2007-2012 making use if the concepts, evidence and policy discussed in Book 3. Introduction The concept of community is interpreted by individuals and groups in different ways, resulting in many perceptions drawn from experience both presently and historically. With this in mind, policy makers have many social problems and ideals to overcome when

explain how the notion of social harm is connected with the ideas of social justice; support your answer with evidence from at least 2 chapters of book 1. This essay will explain the notion of social harm and how it is connected with social justice using different forms of evidence to support it. The first piece of evidence used is the Chinese cockle pickers, and the migrant workers which dro