How often do you take road trips or drive from town to town? Have you ever noticed that it all seems to blur together? Every town seems to have something every other town has; a McDonald’s, a Walmart, some chain stores, lots of roads. Geographers coin this phenomenon as Placelessness: the effect of having cookie-cutter attributes that evoke a “lack of place” – a detachment from the local geographic distinctions, as they could exist anywhere else. From the moment the concept was introduced to me, I started to see it everywhere.…
The two sites that I decided to use are the Shield’s Library Courtyard and the Memorial Union Quadrangle. The reason I chose the library’s courtyard is that I always like to go and spend time there, I feel focused when I am there. It’s quiet, relaxing and peaceful. In comparison to the quad I go there to socialize and think out loud, but I cannot feel that I am focused because I feel that there is always a large number of people occupying it at the same time so it feels more crowed. I chose both locations to show how they can be, similar in ways but at the same time they could be very different.…
Closeness or Personal Space (Proxemics) Each culture, and even within cultures in terms of rural and urban living, has different levels of physical closeness appropriate to different types of relationship, and individuals learn these distances from the society in which they grew up. In today's multicultural society, it is important to consider the range of non-verbal codes as expressed in different ethnic groups. When someone violates an 'appropriate' distance, people may feel uncomfortable or defensive.…
The examples demonstrated in the lecture has impressed me a lot. For instance, the puppy plaza in Canada. Poppy plaza is a public space that designed to honor people who served to protect Canada’s freedom and security during wartime. Although I have never been there, I can feel the space evokes the sense of connection with distant places. The narratives and topography are concise that portraying different voices and make me feel stunning.…
Introduction This assignment compares and contrasts two fashion retail stores in Wellington, one catered to males and one to females. It analyses the retail environment of each store and critically evaluates the stores’ current retail practices. It then provides recommendations for improvement. The second part of the assignment evaluates two window displays.…
This report is for AD-3303(Place, Culture and Identity ). This report provides a brief overview of the game(Pokemon Go) and it’s aliases(location-based games). It investigate how an urban space have been used prior to its emergence. It shows how a sub culture can shape or transform the spaces that they used. The report uses Lefebvre’s conceptual triad as a baseline in order to explain the fundamentals of spaces and its social implication that arise from it.…
In McClay and McAllister’s Why Place Matters they argue that space isn’t as important to society or individuals due to globalization. Globalization happened because of the technological advances of communication and transportation making it easy to move people, products, and ideas. They claim that place is an important aspect to us as individuals because we risk forfeiting the reality of embodiment. We risk the basis for healthy and resilient individual identity. The preconditions for cultivating of people’s virtues is also at risk.…
They were also able to deduce from this study that those who preceded the intruders in the line felt more distaste for the queue jumpers as opposed to those in front of the queue jumpers (Milgram et al, 1986). This study demonstrates the social implications that queue jumping can have on an individual and the reason that so much weight has been assigned to the importance of researching queue jumping is because through this human interest, social theories, such as the “Social Identity Theory” have taken place. Social Identity Theory is a theory based on group membership as well as intergroup interactions that are based on self-categorisation, social comparison and the structure of a shared self-definition in terms of ingroup-defining properties (Vaughan & Hogg,…
Space MetroShoe Warehouse is located in Edmond, Oklahoma and it utilizes its space to send a message to its customers and, too tell them what its store is about. The arrangement of merchandise and decorations are meant to bring a warm welcome into the store. On the surface, the primary message of the space seems to be welcoming customers into the store to look around, but a closer look will reveal that the message could also be if you have money you can enjoy the products. The store is located off the Turnpike and on an outlet mall called Qual.…
Numerous researchers, guided by different theories, have studied the factors thought to engender behavior. One such theory is the theory of planned behavior (Ajzen, 1991). An important proponent of Ajzen’s theory is subjective norms, defined as perceived social pressure to either perform a behavior or not. In theory, subjective norms are helpful for predicting behavior (Ajzen, 1991) as are descriptive norms, the perception of others’ behavior (Rivis & Sheeran, 2003).…
Title: Pop Your Bubble Purpose: To determine the effect of getting in people’s percutaneous space at school, and make comparisons based on age. Background Information: Proxemics is the scientific term used for one’s use of space. It was created by Edward Hall. He determine that there are four distinct zones of interpersonal distance; those being: intimate space, personal space, social space, and public space.…
For this exercise, I stayed in the MD. Anderson Library in the UH main campus at 11:30. I sat down at the last computer, which is nearest the none-computer area and the windows. First, I had not decided to do this observation at that time, but a yelling voice of an African American guy made me feel curious. That led me open the Microsoft Word screen on computer and begin making my public space observation, an assignment in Sociology 1300 course.…
Assessment Task 4: Adjusting the marketing mix 1. What was the key starting point for Parcelforce Worldwide in adjusting the marketing mix? Parcelforce Worldwide is part of the Royal Mail Group and is a leading provider of express parcel deliveries. The company s European delivery partners include General Logistics Systems , a commercial parcel carrier and European Parcels Group , which is a postal parcels company and is part of the Express Mails Services worldwide network and operates in three distinct markets: Business-to-Business services the transportation of parcels and supplies from one company or commercial venture to another.…
In his recent attempt to update Cultural Proximity Theory, Straubhaar argued that cultural proximities are dynamic based on the audiences’ identification of the following cultural…
‘Space of place’ and ‘space of flows’ denote two spatial logics that refer to the meaning and dynamic of places. ‘Space of flows’ is comparable to the logic of traditional civil society. This implies a local place with an identity where people live and work. People feel connected to the ‘space of place’ through the social practices and embedded social networks. That is also the reason why people want to move or stay in such places (due to the experiences).…