‘in Light of What You Have Learned About City Road, Describe Some of the Inequalities on a Street Which You Know.
‘In light of what you have learned about City Road, describe some of the inequalities on a street which you know. ’ 750 words
Inequalities or differences in the streets of the UK are looked in many different aspects; differences among people are looked through our social lives and through our material differences. These can include what people find valuable, what similarities they might have and what things are distributed between people. We start to categorise people and we label them according to what we see and what we hear through other people. Inequalities in our society today are about gender; age; ethnicity; class; disability; race and nationality.
I also like many others believe that my street is unique and uncommon; this is a perception derived from my daily personal experience over many years. Nevertheless, when we observe most of the things such as different activities, the use of street space, we can begin to recognise a pattern of occurrences that will be found on any street in the UK.
On Falcon Road like City Road, I am able to see many differences and inequalities between people. It was very interesting to see how Colin the own of a local newsagent was affected because of the opening of Tescos and Spar, how his business had slowed down, as the same happened on my Road. A local newsagent shop where I use to go often after school was affected slightly with the opening of Spar opposite it but after a couple of years it had to shut down when Tescos opened up opposite and took the place of Spar. ‘Some people gain from this reshaping of society….other people lose… It creates new inequalities and differences and it might reinforce existing inequalities and differences’ (Making Social Lives on City Road’, 2009)
Falcon Road has people from all kinds of cultures; religions; backgrounds and class. On one side of the road there are council estates with the average middle class living there, the most of them are probably on benefits, but still own
Inequalities or differences in the streets of the UK are looked in many different aspects; differences among people are looked through our social lives and through our material differences. These can include what people find valuable, what similarities they might have and what things are distributed between people. We start to categorise people and we label them according to what we see and what we hear through other people. Inequalities in our society today are about gender; age; ethnicity; class; disability; race and nationality.
I also like many others believe that my street is unique and uncommon; this is a perception derived from my daily personal experience over many years. Nevertheless, when we observe most of the things such as different activities, the use of street space, we can begin to recognise a pattern of occurrences that will be found on any street in the UK.
On Falcon Road like City Road, I am able to see many differences and inequalities between people. It was very interesting to see how Colin the own of a local newsagent was affected because of the opening of Tescos and Spar, how his business had slowed down, as the same happened on my Road. A local newsagent shop where I use to go often after school was affected slightly with the opening of Spar opposite it but after a couple of years it had to shut down when Tescos opened up opposite and took the place of Spar. ‘Some people gain from this reshaping of society….other people lose… It creates new inequalities and differences and it might reinforce existing inequalities and differences’ (Making Social Lives on City Road’, 2009)
Falcon Road has people from all kinds of cultures; religions; backgrounds and class. On one side of the road there are council estates with the average middle class living there, the most of them are probably on benefits, but still own