Essays on Public Space

The sociological discourse of the 21st century persists on the topic of gender and gender roles, as ascribed by the society for decades, which continue to connect women to the domestic sphere, in a submissive manner, and men to the public sphere, in a dominant manner. In the current modern society, men and women are represented in both the domestic and the public sphere due to social changes that encouraged women participation in the labor work and men’s involvement in the private sphere (Duffy 113). Nevertheless, there are still proves that women continue to be associated with the ...

It is was on Wednesday evening that I decided to visit one of the Starbucks coffee shops located at Gibson Shopping Center at 2828 N Broadway Street. This evening visit was not a usual visit because I was not going there not only to take my favorite white chocolate Starbucks coffee but also to complete my sociology assignment. Conducting a naturalistic observation on Starbucks coffee appears to be a great idea because this is one of the places where people of different kinds meet and interact. After purchasing my favorite coffee, I managed to sit in a position where ...

More than a hundred years ago, it would have been hard to find a clear association with San Diego. In fact, it was a small town that did not differ much from any other city in the south of the USA. It continued until citizens started to take care after the oldest recreational park in the country. They put in a great deal of effort in order to keep a fragile beauty of nature and open special places for the needs of the community. In 1909, a City Council committee decided to take advantage of the former devotion to ...

Food is a fundamental necessity of life and therefore becomes a rich conveyor of cultural traditions and norms and attracts patterns of symbolic significance much like a magnet, for example, who is entitled to eat with whom, and when, and how food is to be shared. The cultural understandings surrounding the sharing of food illuminates social dynamics by distinguishing cohesive social units and social distance. Indeed, it can be said that a culture is encoded in the expectations of behavior associated with the communal act of dining. The purpose of this paper is to examine the historical continuity of ...

The Idea of Commons and Communing

Introduction Ideally, communization is the core pillar of both societal and national coherence. It promotes common interests and sense of mutual ownership of property among members of society. People’s culture is an essential ingredient of communization as it represents people’s ways of life and their attitudes toward life. Culture is crucial in comparing behavioral relationships and characters that constitute a society. Also, belonging to a particular cultural group is a warrant of systematic protection to individual’s existence in a community. Communization entails the cultural transformation in the sense that it brings everything in a community under ...

Introduction

It has become difficult to distinguish once traditional media from the new media, as the former have integrated all the capabilities of the latter. In such a scenario, it would help to compare a traditional medium of communication with a relatively modern/new medium with respect to the circumstances around their origin, and how did they facilitate interpersonal and mass communication. This essay will discuss and analyze two cases: coffee houses as really old media, and podcasts as new media. While the coffee houses gained importance in Europe the mid-1600, and have been around since then, their importance as facilitators ...

A public space refers to a social space that is accessible and open to all the people. Public space involves the roads which include the pavements, the parks, the beaches and public squares. Furthermore, government's buildings such as libraries are also considered public spaces although these places are considered to contained restricted information that bars the public from going to such places. The uses of such places are considered to have greater limits from the government side. Additionally, a public space refers to the central hub of the globe that connects people's movements, ideas, and expertise. It is the ...

The problem of double standards regarding women's rights and opportunities in terms of urban space has a very long history. Since ancient times to the present time, this problem has had many manifestations. Any appearance of women in public in terms of urban space caused various reactions in different periods. More recently, this issue, along with the development of legal and personal relations, began to attract a lot of attention. Thus, its solution lies in a deep analysis of behavioral and social stereotypes. In addition, the question of domestication of urban space involves many problems of gender nature, making ...

Geography: Public Spaces are places where everyone is welcome and is free to express their identity

Introduction Human Identity has been the topic of concern throughout the humanities, cognitive science, psychology, and psychoanalysis (Horowitz, 2012). The identity according to Dougherty (2006) is formed by natural environment and people’s reactions to the places. Though some places of the cities are called public spaces where the people come for various purposes, they are welcome but it is the social unwritten rule that they must abide by the rules and norms of the public places. Public places have traditionally being open minded according to Walzer (1995) and everyone can get access to the public places. For example, ...

In her lecture on Linguistic landscape, Elana Shohamy focuses on language and how they are often used on a public space. By researching on Linguistic Landscape, people can identify patterns of language and how they are used to depict a specific discipline. LL helps in the understanding and interpreting a society in the perspective of trans-language, globalization, exclusion, localization and language justice (Gorter 21). This talk provides for an interpretation of language in the public space in a deeper perspective. The talk describes various Linguistic Landscapes which validates the new perspective that language in the public space can be ...