Metropolitan Networks: A Socio-spatial Analysis of Social Ties in Tehran

2020 ◽  
pp. 073112142096483
Author(s):  
Jaleh Jalili
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Relative Orientation ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Geographical Distance ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Group Relations

Previous research shows that residents of metropolitan areas tend to have social ties outside their neighborhoods, but ties’ locations and what they indicate in terms of social relations and urban structure are not sufficiently studied. Using survey data and interviews collected in Tehran, Iran, I examine the level of propinquity of strong social ties. Measuring the geographical distance and relative orientation between participants and their ties, I discuss the implications of having ties outside residential neighborhoods. I examine how these relations are formed and sustained and analyze how they impact class relations and perceptions of social structure. Results indicate that ties who reside in other neighborhoods offer points of reference for situating oneself in relation to others, both in socioeconomic and cultural sense. Participants’ narratives suggest that ties’ locations, together with ties’ origins and types, impact interpretations of group relations and social hierarchies associated with location in the metropolitan area.

scholarly journals URBAN TERRITORIAL COMMMUNITIES AND THEIR INFLUENCE FORMING URBAN RECREATIONAL TERRITORIES / MIESTO TERITORINIŲ BENDRUOMENIŲ ĮTAKA REKREACINIŲ TERITORIJŲ FORMAVIMUI

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 30-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inga Urbonaitė
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Green Areas

Town green areas are very important elements of urban structure, it is used for leisure, recreation, buidling social relations. Their importance is measured not only from ecological point of view, but also from estetical and economical. It is important to understand, not only how recreation system influeces the surrounding environment, but also what should it be to meet urban territorial communities needs.

scholarly journals Negative Life Events, Social Ties, and Depressive Symptoms for Older Adults in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 580-580
Author(s):  
Hangqing Ruan ◽  
Feinian Chen
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Negative Life Events ◽  
Old Age Support ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Different Types

Abstract Negative life events are considered important risk factors of depression among older adults. An overwhelming amount of literature suggests that individuals with the most supportive social relations tend to make a better recovery from stressful life events. As for which types of ties matter the most, whether being family, relatives, friends or the broader community, existing literature is much less consistent and has documented varying effects across different contexts. This study is set in China, which traditionally relies on family systems and filial obligations for old-age support. Using two waves of data from China Longitudinal Aging Social Survey, we examine the protective effect of different types of social relations on depressive symptoms, including those who are living in the household, children who live close by or far away, as well as their ties with family, relatives, and friends.

scholarly journals Rites of Passage or Exploitation? Teaching Social Anthropology, Class Relations and Institutional Change in Two British Universities

1970 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Gibb
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Social Division ◽  
Managerial Practices ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
Social Fields

In this paper I discuss my experience of teaching and researching in two different British universities in the late 1990s in order to develop a number of arguments about the place of teaching in the making and un-making of professional / academic anthropologists. Not all of the issues I raise, however, can be formulated as questions of ‘boundaries’ or ‘identities’ (in the way the title and rubric of this panel suggest [2] ), although for some of them this is indeed appropriate. Thus, while it is true that the nature of disciplinary borders and identities emerge as key concerns, my material also draws attention to contemporary employment and managerial practices in higher education, as well as to the reproduction of various forms of social division (notably along class lines). As the rubric of this panel recognises, it is in fact the re-organisation of sets of hierarchical social relations characterised by domination and exploitation which often lies behind current changes in higher education (as in other social fields). In my view, the boundary concept is not the most useful tool with which to analyse such processes, and in particular the power relations and structural inequalities involved. For this reason, I will refer instead to social divisions and status hierarchies in the section of the paper that deals with these wider issues.

scholarly journals Spatial analysis of childhood leukemia and industrial air pollution sources in metropolitan areas of Colombia

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 337-338
Author(s):  
Rodriguez-Villamizar L ◽  
Acuña Merchán L ◽  
Rojas Díaz M ◽  
Valbuena-García A ◽  
Moreno Corzo F ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Childhood Leukemia ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Pollution Sources ◽  
Industrial Air Pollution

Laughter in times of uncertainty: Negotiating gender and social distance in Bahraini women’s humorous talk

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anke Reichenbach
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Gendered Identities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Hierarchy ◽  
Gender Ideals ◽  
Alternative Identities ◽  
Women's Humor ◽  
Women Friends ◽  
Local Ideals

AbstractThis paper explores three interrelated aspects of young Bahraini women’s laughter: the subjects and genres of their humor, the social relationships between the women involved with a particular focus on homo-social friendships, and their humor’s potential as an instrument of resistance or social control. After discussing local ideals of femininity, the paper analyzes three distinct genres of humorous conversation: self-mockery, mutual teasing, and joking about absent third parties. The data show that the ambiguity of humour allowed for great freedom regarding women’s play with gendered identities and the expression of critical views on Bahrain’s gender hierarchy. Simultaneously, different kinds of humor were employed to negotiate closeness or distance in social relations. Among women friends, humor was often drastic, intimate, aggressive, and revelled in the taboo subjects of Bahraini society. Through humor, women questioned existing gender ideals and played with alternative identities. Their laughter, however, also served to maintain conventional ideas about “proper” women and confirmed existing social hierarchies. Thus, Bahraini women’s humor captured the contradictions and ambiguities of their fragmented and hybrid social environment replete with the uncertainties accompanying rapid social change.

Violent Imaginaries and the Beginnings of a New State

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Oliver Chang
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Chinese Immigrants ◽  
The Political ◽  
Military Leaders ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ritual Violence ◽  
Chinese Individual ◽  
The Revolution

U.S. consular reports on Mexican anti-Chinese activities document the uncoordinated, synchronous anti-Chinese activities that took place as a part of the revolutionary battlefield. This chapter traces the social relations that gave rise to cooperative violence, or grotesque assemblies, in the context of the revolution. Events like the massacre at Torreón in 1911 illustrate the emergence of new social ties based upon Porfian discontent and doing harm to Chinese. Individual cases of tactical assassinations and ritual violence against the Chinese bodies further illuminate the absence of mestizo nationalism as motivation. The chapter details reports of ritualized violence that present a battlefield where Chinese immigrants are under constant attack. These modes of popular violence against Chinese shifted the political identity of assailants, no matter their allegiance or affiliation, to patriotic revolutionaries. Peasants and Indians did not threaten the bourgeois military leaders of the revolution when they expressed antichinismo.

scholarly journals A spatial analysis of gating in Bloemfontein, South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (28) ◽  
pp. 37-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verno Ferreira ◽  
Gustav Visser
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Defensible Space ◽  
Urban Hierarchy ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Metropolitan Regions ◽  
Safety Features ◽  
Gated Developments

Abstract Growing trends of fear and insecurity in cities have sparked the re-visitation of gating, posing significant problems for citizens and policy makers alike. Gated developments are a global phenomenon occurring in diverse countries in both the developed North and developing South. Metropolitan areas in South Africa have also witnessed a rapid increase in the number and spread of gated developments since the late 1980s. Development of enclosed neighbourhoods has become increasingly popular, gaining widespread support for their utopic lifestyle and safety features. On the whole, high levels of crime and fear of crime have led to the construction of defensible space, in the form of gated developments, resulting in elevated levels of segregation. This paper provides a spatial analysis on gated developments in the non-metropolitan setting of Bloemfontein. The pattern and timeframe of gating in this city is shown to be similar to those found elsewhere in South Africa and, indeed, globally. Overall, it is the contention that gating is a trend not only seen in large metropolitan areas, but across the entire urban hierarchy of South Africa, and, as a consequence, requires investigation far beyond its metropolitan regions to more fully understand gated developments.

scholarly journals RELIGIOUS FACTOR IN COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUALISTIC AIMS OF YOUNG PEOPLE OF JAPAN AND RUSSIA

2019 ◽  
pp. 87-93
Author(s):  
Valery V. Gribenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Traditional Group ◽  
Group Relations ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Western Values ◽  
Religious Factor ◽  
Japanese Youth

Topicality of the research is seen in interaction of Japan and Russia regarding the international cooperation of the Pacific Rim countries and rising of discussions timed to declared year of Japan in Russia. At the heart of the research is a comparative analysis of reception of individualism of these two cultures. The problems of the research are considered through the examination of egocentric intensions which underlie semantic crises. The researcher resorts estrangement the traditions among young people environment and voluntary solitude or withdrawal to long state of loneliness. The author analyses widespread phenomena of hikikomori which is defined as a need of individual to avoid social relations. In Russian young people society (the group below twenty years old) the adaptation of forms voluntary rejection of traditional group relations and an imitation of practices in Internet communities is becoming perceptible. The analysis of resemblances and differences of motivations of young people that orient on so to be called “western values”, factors that influence the development of studied social moods are mentioned, predictions regarding adaptations of some elements of Japanese youth culture by Russian young people at present time is made.

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