scholarly journals ELEMENTOS SUPERESTRUTURAIS NA PRODUÇÃO DO ESPAÇO SUBURBANO

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-131
Author(s):  
Francisco Clébio Rodrigues Lopes

Este artigo analisa aspectos superestruturais na produção do espaço a partir da relação entre ideologia e suburbanização. Em termos teórico-metodológicos, conta com uma revisão de componentes da superestrutura marxista cruzados com textos publicitários de incorporadoras imobiliárias. Conclui que a moradia suburbana de classe média é a materialização da ideologia, pois a forma segregada é produto de um sistema de ideias que se corporificou ao interferir no espaço social.Palavras-chave: Urbanização. Representação e ideologia. ABSTRACTThis paper examines superstructural aspects in the production of space from the relationship between ideology and suburbanization. In theoretical and methodological terms, it includes a review of components of Marxist superstructure crossed with advertising copies of real estate developers. It concludes that the suburban housing middle class is the materialization of ideology, because the segregated form is the product of a system of ideas that is embodied by interfering in the social space.Keywords: urbanization, representation and ideology. RESUMENEste artículo analiza aspectos superestructurales en la producción del espacio a partir de la relación entre ideología y suburbanización. En términos teórico-metodológicos, cuenta con una revisión de componentes de la superestructura marxista cruzados con textos publicitarios de incorporadoras inmobiliarias. Concluye que la vivienda suburbana de clase media es la materialización de la ideología, pues la forma aislada es producto de un sistema de ideas que se ha concretado al interferir en el espacio social.Palabras clave: urbanización; representación; ideología.

Author(s):  
Ushashi Dasgupta

This book explores the significance of rental culture in Charles Dickens’s fiction and journalism. It reveals tenancy, or the leasing of real estate in exchange for money, to be a governing force in everyday life in the nineteenth century. It casts a light into back attics and landladies’ parlours, and follows a host of characters—from slum landlords exploiting their tenants, to pairs of friends deciding to live together and share the rent. In this period, tenancy shaped individuals, structured communities, and fascinated writers. The vast majority of London’s population had an immediate economic relationship with the houses and rooms they inhabited, and Dickens was highly attuned to the social, psychological, and imaginative corollaries of this phenomenon. He may have been read as an overwhelming proponent of middle-class domestic ideology, but if we look closely, we see that his fictional universe is a dense network of rented spaces. He is comfortable in what he calls the ‘lodger world’, and he locates versions of home in a multitude of unlikely places. These are not mere settings, waiting to be recreated faithfully; rented space does not simply provide a backdrop for incident in the nineteenth-century novel. Instead, it plays an important part in influencing what takes place. For Dickens, to write about tenancy can often mean to write about writing—character, authorship, and literary collaboration. More than anything, he celebrates the fact that unassuming houses brim with narrative potential: comedies, romances, mysteries, and comings-of-age take place behind their doors.


2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nomanesi Madikizela-Madiya ◽  
John Mushomi Atwebembeire

PurposeIn this paper we contribute knowledge to the postgraduate supervision discourses by reflecting on our socio-spatial experiences of being supervised by colleagues, a process that we refer to as colleague postgraduate supervision (CPS).Design/methodology/approachWe followed a duoethnographic research design by dialogically presenting and exploring our lived experiences of CPS and critiquing and questioning the meanings we give to those experiences. The experiences shared arose from two different contexts: a contact university and an open distance learning university.FindingsThe reflection suggests that social values of trust, compassion and care in CPS can outrun the spatial constraints for the benefit of the supervisees in the relationship. However, the colleagues in the CPS can also experience some subtle power dynamics and tensions that produce a constraining space, if the CPS process is not well communicated.Originality/valueWhile CPS is a common practice in some universities, there is limited research that pays attention to its socio-spatiality, that is, the interaction between the social and the spatial aspects of this practice.


Author(s):  
Annie McClanahan

Chapter 4 begins by noting that contemporary discourse on the economic crisis is profoundly shaped by the language of horror and fear. To understand why, this chapter turns to four post-crisis horror films that explicitly link fear, foreclosure, and financialized credit: Drag Me to Hell (dir. Sam Raimi), Dream Home (dir. Pang Ho-cheung), Mother’s Day (dir. Darren Lynn Bousman), and Crawlspace (dir. Josh Stolberg). All four films take up real estate lending, mortgage speculation, and foreclosure risk and locate horror in the “dead pledge” of the mortgage. Using horror and the home-invasion genre to explore the shifting understandings of ownership consequent to the housing crisis, these films frighteningly literalize the doctrine of caveat emptor. Exploring the relationship between “paying back” and “payback,” they suggest that introduction of speculative risk has shifted the social force of credit contracts from the promise of trust to the threat of revenge.


2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-162
Author(s):  
Brynnar Swenson

Often overlooked, Robert Herrick (1868–1938) was an experimental novelist who produced a sustained and critical engagement with the economic, political, and aesthetic effects of unregulated capitalist expansion in the late nineteenth century. Focusing onThe Web of Life(1900) andTogether(1908), this essay argues that Herrick's novels forcefully document a radical middle-class political position and demonstrate how the middle class was capable of apprehending and resisting the functionings of capitalism—especially its fragmentation of lived experience and its foreclosure of any practical exterior to the social totality. Given how recent economic trends toward deregulation and privatization have resulted in a precarious situation for the middle class worldwide, Herrick's depiction of the emergence of the modern middle class in 1890s Chicago also presents a dynamic foil from which to view our present moment. Though his genre-bending and politically ambiguous literary and political experiments have long contributed to critical confusion and even dismissal of his work, today Herrick's novels are a powerful tool for rethinking the long-accepted understanding of the relationship between literary realism, the struggles surrounding the emergence of corporate capitalism, and the political standpoint of the professional middle class.


2010 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 33-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore J. Karamanski

Abstract Across America, National Register Historic Districts have done a better job helping to preserve building stock and stabilize communities than they have of meeting the articulated goal of With a Heritage So Rich, the foundational 1966 study that gave birth to the National Register of Historic Places. According to that report, historic sites were to ““give a sense of orientation to our society”” and help to implant in people ““values of time and place.”” This article looks at the evolution of historic districts in Chicago, Illinois through the lens of public memory. It explores the relationship between ““official”” memory and gentrification, ““vernacular memory”” and community preservation through the story of two waves of National Register District creation in Chicago, first in the 1980s led by real estate developers and a second in the late 1990s.


2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Dickson ◽  
Lauren Hall-Lew

Despite the prominence of socioeconomic status as a factor in models of English variation, few studies have explicitly considered speakers whose social class status changed over their lifetime. This paper presents an auditory and acoustic analysis of variation in non-prevocalic /r/ among middle-aged adults from Edinburgh, Scotland. The speakers represent three groups: the Established Middle Class (EMC) and the Working Class (WC), both of which are characterized as socioeconomically non-mobile, and a third group we call the New Middle Class (NMC), comprising individuals born to working-class families and living middle-class lives at the time of data collection. The results demonstrate that realizations of /r/ have a significant correlation with socioeconomic status, and that the effect of class further interacts with gender. NMC speakers demonstrate the highest level of rhoticity of all three groups. In contrast, WC men show extensive derhoticization and deletion, while WC women show patterns of rhoticity that are more comparable to the NMC women. The EMC speakers show more non-rhoticity than either the NMC speakers or the WC women. A consideration of the indexical value of weak rhoticity highlights the need for more robust phonetic measures distinguishing non-rhoticity from derhoticization, and to that end we consider the cue of post-vocalic frication. Overall, the results point to the need to conceptualize socioeconomic status as potentially fluid and changeable across the lifespan, thereby improving models of the relationship between social class and linguistic variation.


2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (01) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Rahmadi Agus Setiawan

Study of religion and territory (space) is a new phenomenon in recent dec­ades along with the tendency of religious studies that change from normative to con­tex­tual approach. Plosokuning village as a religious area becomes research ob­ject that examines the relationship between religion and space. Furthermore, this re­search will explore how this religious region is formed and how it affects the beha­vior of the people in this village.This study uses a social theory known as the production of space proposed by Henri Lefebvre. In this theory, space is a social production, and always related to the social reality that surrounds it. Space never existed and manifested itself or held itself. In other words space has a historical dimension that helped shape it. The social space also influences the way of thinking and acting of society that exists in the space, as well as uses as control and domination.From the historical approach, it is found that the religious area of Plosokun­ing is a product of the palace (kraton Yogyakarta) that makes Plosokuning as a mutihan area (place of worship). This religious area is intended as a bastion of the spirituality of the palace and the implementation of the royal philosophy known as Kiblat Papat Lima Pancer. In this philosophy, the palace is in the middle and sur­rounded by a spiritual fortress in the form of four Pathok Negara Mosques, one of which is the Pathok Negara Mosque in Plosokuning.The religious area of Plosokuning, which is a palace product, has an influ­ence on the Islamic religiosity of the Plosokuning community. This religious beha­vior can be proved by the emergence of cultural products, both tangible and intangi­ble cultures. Tangible cultures are like the emergence of some boarding schools (pesantren), some musholla (small mosques), Muslim housing, and majelis ta'lim (place for Islamic studies). While intangible culture such as the emergence of Is­lamic art, religious rituals, as well as Islamic religious norms in society. Plosokun­ing as religious area continues to be inherited from generation to generation by continu­ing to revive the Islamic culture, both tangible and intangible culture.The study of the Plosokuning community also shows a strong relation be­tween religious space and the behavior of the people. By the existing of the reli­gious area,  so the sacred character of religion becomes strong in the environment of Pathok Negara Mosque Plosokuning. As a sacred area, it becomes a shame (ta­boo) when people conduct behavior or actions that violate Islamic norms and tradi­tions. The social function of this religion is also reinforced by giving social sanc­tions for people who violate the teachings of Islam. Keywords: Islam, production of space, sacred, Yogyakarta.


2020 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 95-105
Author(s):  
Adiba Ergashevna Shaymanova ◽  

The middle class plays an important role in maintaining and strengthening stability in civil society. Only when a truly middle-class class is formed in the country will civil society enter the path of sustainable development. It is known that from time immemorial, mankind has lived in different strata, groups and tribes. The social structure of any society consisted of three strata, the upper class, the middle class, and the lower class, or the poor. The sustainable development of society depended on the relationship between these strata. At that time, a relatively large number of middle-class landowners played a key role in ensuring social balance. In a country where the middle class makes up the majority of the population, the country is relatively peaceful, socially stable and prosperous. The study of the experience of the advanced countries with the status of a democratic state, the independent Republic of Uzbekistan, which is making great strides towards achieving this lofty goal, testifies to the fact that , they are the driving force of the country's development and a reliable basis for its stability. The article consists of an introduction, goals and objectives, methods, results and comments, and a conclusion.


1977 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 843-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Johnson ◽  
Ardyth Norem-Hebeisen

Although a variety of psychological theorists have posited that a central aspect of psychological health is the ability to join with other persons in cooperative efforts to achieve mutually desired goals, there is little direct evidence linking the social psychological literature on cooperation with the personality literature on psychological health. An exploratory study was conducted to examine the relationship between attitudes toward cooperation, competition, and individualism and psychological health as indicated by the MMPI. Subjects were 70 white, middle-class, high-school seniors in a midwestern suburban community. Attitudes toward cooperation were significantly negatively correlated with 8 of the 10 clinical MMPI scales and with a variety of the research MMPI scales. Attitudes toward competition were significantly negatively correlated with 7 of the 10 clinical MMPI scales and with a variety of the research MMPI scales. Attitudes toward individualism were positively correlated with 9 of the 10 clinical MMPI scales and with a variety of the research MMPI scales.


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