In this thesis, it is aimed to investigate to what extent Bulgarian Turkish immigrants of 1989 and the following years, integrated to the urban life and to analyze the role of their social networks in this process. In this respect, demographic, socioeconomic variables and migration process, social networks and organized and political behaviour of the immigrants have been evaluated in a comparative perspective with Turkish rural migrants in order to understand their difference in urban integration levels. Economic, social and political levels of urban integration of immigrants have been analyzed and the findings of two different age-groups were compared on these levels to see the generational difference in urban intaegration A total of 140 members of the association &ldquo / Bulgaristan T&uuml / rkleri Deliorman K&uuml / lt&uuml / r Dernegi&rdquo / were interviewed in Yenibosna for this purpose. Contrary to assumptions, they couldn&rsquo / t easily integrate to the urban life in Turkey because they came from a country, which is different in ideological, economic, social and cultural aspects. The most important difference was political and ideological, since they were raised in a country, which was socialist in that period before immigration. They formed a strong community to cope with the difficulties in the new environment. Although they became successful in economic integration to a certain extent, they couldn&rsquo / t integrate socially and politically in the same way.

This thesis analyzes the validity of main assumptions of housing classes approach, which is a Weberian mode of analyses developed to explain the effects of spatial stratification on social structures of cities, in an empirical level through a case study. According to this approach, housing is a scarce resource which is subject to processes of competition between different social groups and struggles among these groups to get access to desirable housing types constitute the basis of urban social processes. In this context, it is suggested that housing type resided in has apparent effect on individuals&rsquo / position in social stratification system and their life chances are restricted in the style and location of housing to which they could get access. It is seen that the way of analysis proposed by housing classes approach has certain effects on urban studies conducted in Turkey, as well. These studies suggest that differences in accessed housing types and in living spaces on a large scale affects life chances of social groups residing in there. By the same token, apartment and squatter (gecekondu) have been used as two concepts representing the relationships of different social sections with the city and they have been considered as two different social environments or neighborhoods. In this context, in addition to analyzing the main assumptions of housing classes approach in an empirical level, this study also questions the mode of analysis used in studies conducted in Turkey insofar as they share the main assumptions of this approach, within the frame of transformations experienced in gecekondu neighborhoods. In this study, in the light of the findings gathered through case study, it is concluded that spatial stratification arising from the housing ownership is parallel to the social divisions based on labor market. Moreover, it is found out that gecekondu and apartment being constructed during transformation processes in gecekondu areas do not indicate different social environments or living spaces which represent opposite forms of social relations and, therefore, which separate from each other through definite lines.

The broad argument underpinning this thesis is that a feature of contemporary city life deserving further critical attention is that of the ‘extraordinary everyday.’ I coin this term as a way of identifying and describing an increasingly common place articulation or ‘interface’ between the extraordinary (that is, the production and experience of spectacle and intense affective states within the context of technologically mediated, contemporary urban space), and the everyday (the seemingly banal routines and structures that organise our day to day existence in a consumer society).

The following thesis explores construction policy discourses within the context of the United Kingdom (UK). The research was deemed both important and necessary as the construction sector represents a major portion of the UK economy, accounting for approximately seven per cent of GDP, and employing millions (Rhodes: 2015). Adopting an ontology of becoming and an interpretive epistemological perspective, it is argued that construction policy documents are best characterised as crystallised snapshots of a community s attempts at meaning making in time. Utilising a qualitative methodology, the thesis primarily achieves its aims through the textual analysis of three prominent construction policy documents ( Rethinking Construction - the Egan report, the Government Construction Strategy , and the Industrial Strategy: Construction 2025), as well as informational interviews with eleven contemporary, senior construction policy stakeholders, from nine different organisations. The empirical element was inspired by interpretive approaches to policy analysis, and in particular the works of Yanow (2000; 2003; 2007) and drew upon the Hermeneutical approach repopularised by Taylor (1971), and Gadamer (1975). Four primary discourses were discovered, these being: The discourse of the need to be competitive ; The discourse of the essentialness of efficiency ; The discourse of unfulfilled potential ; The discourse of fear of not being Modern . The analysis suggests that construction policy discourses at the time of writing are predominantly influenced by the dominant cultural trends known as neoliberalism and the enterprise culture , but that these too must be seen as emerging from, and as informed by, the super-ideology of political declinism (Tomlinson: 2000). It is from these cultural sources that the pools of meanings articulated in the texts are drawn (Marton: 1986). Furthermore, tracing the etymology of the word policy , it is suggested that construction policy documents police behaviour by shaping it towards particular directions in keeping with specific normative visions concerning the good life policy elites have. The findings are important as they suggest that contemporary construction policy discourses are in danger of becoming increasingly myopic, with alternative perspectives and visions increasingly marginalised, and so any potential for the flexible adaptation or reimagining of future policies is reduced. As a result, the thesis argues for greater involvement from a broader spectrum of social actors in all stages of construction policy, to both contribute to strengthening citizenry and democracy in the UK, whilst reducing the potential for myopia amongst policy elites.

This dissertation adopts a quantitative approach to investigate the determinants of residents’ perceptions of neighbourhood crime, focusing specifically on a series of structural factors at the community level, in accordance with the social disorganisation model. Using different statistical models, including correlations, linear regression, multilevel models and spatial regression analyses, and several Spanish data sources, in particular the 2001 Population and Housing Census and a nationally representative survey conducted in 2006, the research confirms the relevance of its exogenous sources in explaining perceived neighbourhood crime. These include classical variables, such as neighbourhoods’ socioeconomic status, residential stability, ethnic diversity, family disruption and degree of urbanisation, but also other features related to the time, skills and resources deployed by residents in their residential areas such as commuting time to work, the number of working hours and the availability of a second home. For its part, other local conditions traditionally associated specifically with perceived neighbourhood crime, such as social incivilities and physical decay, act as mediators of other contextual effects, in particular of the number of retail shops and offices. The research also demonstrates the urban nature of the social disorganisation theory. That is, that the local conditions typically associated with social disorganisation, urban unease and the various social problems that can affect neighbourhoods, are better predictors of residents’ perceptions of crime in town and large cities than in rural areas, operationalized as municipalities of less than 5,000 inhabitants. Small municipalities seem particularly successful in controlling their younger residents for neither the proportion of adolescents and young adults, nor the number of children per family exert an important effect on residents’ perceptions of neighbourhood crime. Among these local conditions, special attention has been devoted to measures of diversity and immigration demonstrating that their effect on residents’ perceptions of neighbourhood crime, except for the positive impact of Asians, is not necessarily robust to different model specifications and statistical methods. This erratic immigrant effect is surprising given how consistent the belief in a crime-immigration nexus is among Spaniards. Precisely on this point, the dissertation has investigated why the belief in a crime-immigration nexus varies significantly between individuals and across communities. Three variables have been identified as determining factors: contextual parochialism, right-wing ideology and the media. In rural areas with high residential stability, a significant presence of elderly population and a low socioeconomic status, residents are more likely to unconsciously associate immigration and crime, even when individual attributes are adjusted for and, more importantly, even if few migrants live in the surroundings. Not surprisingly, right-wing residents are more likely to associate both phenomena yet, in contrast to many statements by scholars and pundits, the media in Spain seems to exert a moderator effect.

Orientador: Regina Célia Bega dos Santos / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T11:56:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lima_IvanOliveira_M.pdf: 5639166 bytes, checksum: 7fa5ba360bf9ef2274608e7bb7c69ac5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: A presente pesquisa analisa um setor da porção sudoeste da cidade de Campinas, popularmente conhecida como "região do DIC (Distrito Industrial de Campinas)". Tal localidade teve seu crescimento estimulado pelo poder público municipal a partir da década de 1970, com o surgimento do PPDI (Plano Municipal de Desenvolvimento Integrado) e criação do distrito industrial do município. Tais estratégias não foram suficientes para completar com sucesso os planos da administração municipal. Em meio a dívidas e a crise do sistema capitalista capital da década de 1970, fora incentivada a ocupação da localidade pelos conjuntos habitacionais da COHAB, que acabaram servindo de vetor para o aumento da densidade populacional da região, incentivando o surgimento de vários bairros no entorno. Durante todos estes processos, os poderes do capital e do Estado se aliaram de tal maneira, que deu origem a uma das áreas mais segregadas de Campinas, com infraestrutura precária e elevada concentração populacional. A produção deste espaço é aqui comparada à noção de habitat debatida por Lefebvre, e fora concebida como máquina de morar, que nega a população que ali reside o direito a cidade. Através de análise bibliográfica e empírica, constatamos como a conquista deste direito está longe do cotidiano dos cidadãos que ali residem, e o quanto a produção do espaço urbano está direcionado ao valor de troca e a taxa de lucro que a cidade pode proporcionar aos detentores do proprietários do solo urbano e do capital, estando sempre distante de atender aos que ali vivem / Abstract: This research analyzes a sector of the southwest region of Campinas city, which is widely known as "DIC region (Industrial District of Campinas)". This region had its growth stimulated by strategies of the municipal government since the 1970s, with the emergence of PPDI (Preliminary Plan of Integrated Development) and the creation of the industrial district of the city. Those strategies were not enough to successfully accomplish the plans of the public administration. In a scenario marked by municipal debts and the international crises of the capitalism system in the 1970s, the public administration promoted the occupation of locality by social housing of COHAB, which contributed for the increase of the population concentration of the region, stimulating the establishment and growth of many neighborhoods around it. During all these processes, the municipal and state administration joined forces in such way that gave rise to the most segregated areas of Campinas, with a precarious infrastructure and a high population densification. The production of this space can be compared to the notion of habitat debated by Lefebvre, and was conceived as a housing machine, which neglects the region inhabitants the right to the city. Based on a literature and empirical analysis, we verified that the region inhabitants are still far from being able to achieve this right. We also verified how the development of the urban space is influenced by the exchange value and the profit rate that the city can give to owners of urban soil and of the financial capital. As a result, this development is very far from attending the demands and needs of the inhabitants of the region / Mestrado / Análise Ambiental e Dinâmica Territorial / Mestre em Geografia

The topic of this diploma thesis is a cultural life in small spa towns, specifically presented on a case study of town Lázně Toušeň. In the theoretical part of the thesis the topic is incorporated into urban sociology and the thesis focuses on questions such as what is the difference between a city and a village, are there any transitional areas and what kind of urbanization processes can occur in the countryside. In the second chapter of the theoretical part the main focus of the thesis lies with spas, their history and cultural specifics. In the empirical part, the case study itself, the thesis looks into the town of Lázně Toušeň and its spa, specifically on the cultural life in the town between the years 1968 - 1989. The study focuses on topics such as what is the difference between cultural and community life in the town during normalization period and present day and how are they influenced by the specifics of Toušeň. The study also covers the topics of daily life in the spa, the organizational and financial side of the cultural events or the role of the "cultural officers". The research was based on semi structured interviews with contemporary witnesses and was complemented by historical sources and secondary literature. The objective of the thesis is to bring a study of cultural life in a...

Hostile architecture is a medium through which social exclusion is enacted in the public and common areas of our cities. By limiting who is allowed to occupy space, and how they may do so, it functions to define the contours of inclusion in urban space-- all of which is predicated on one’s engagement with the zones of consumerism that have overtaken the cities’ commons. As a result, those without the means to partake are pushed aside, despite the inner-cities’ historical relationships with the poor, unhoused, and marginalized. The purpose of this study is to explore how lived experiences and knowledge of discriminatory architecture can inform a sociological analysis of hostile architecture. By exploring hostile architecture in Calgary, this thesis addresses a specific question: How do people with lived experience of homelessness understand hostile architecture? Through Community-Based Participatory Research and Photovoice, this question is addressed through collaboration with community members with lived experience of homelessness. Collectively, we conclude that those with lived experiences of homelessness understand hostile architecture in a multitude of ways. Amongst these understandings is the notion that hostile architecture not only excludes and displaces the unhoused and marginalized, but that it is also part and parcel of the wider range of hostilities against those experiencing homeless. One key theoretical concept grounds the research. Henri Lefebvre’s ‘Right to the City’ is used as a starting point in discussing what an equitable city might look like. I maintain that the lived experiences and knowledge held by those with experiences of homelessness can sensitize the public, and inform regional and national policymakers about this exclusionary mechanism. / Graduate

No description available.

Este Relatório dá particular importância ao interaccionismo simbólico enquanto teoria explicativa de recorte inovador e precursora na explicitação dos mecanismos de dominação social. Concretamente, iremos dar particular ênfase à "importância da construção mediática dos problemas sociais", salientando que "ao dar uma visão necessariamente selectiva e ao privilegiar certas interpretações do acontecimento, a imprensa contribui para fabricar o sentido político-social desses movimentos com significações, ao mesmo tempo, superabundantes e ambíguas. No entanto, seria demasiado simples ver os jornalistas somente como "manipuladores" que fabricam, a seu gosto, os acontecimentos ao elaborarem resenhas enviesadas. Eles próprios são o objecto de estratégias de manipulação pelos diversos grupos sociais que organizam manifestações e procuram, através delas, atrair com maior ou menor sucesso a atenção dos jornalistas para terem a possibilidade de aparecer nos media" (Champagne e Outros, 1998:222). Esta opção de análise também permitirá discutir a aplicabilidade actual do interaccionismo simbólico, na medida em que tem vindo a ser retomado com alguma insistência no quadro da produção sociológica contemporânea. Assim, iremos fazer um exercício de aplicação aos bairros sociais da cidade do Porto com base na recolha sistemática de notícias de dois jornais diários. / This report gives particular importance to symbolic interactionism as a theory explaining clipping and innovative in the explanation of the mechanisms of social domination. Specifically, we will give particular emphasis to the "importance of the media construction of social problems", noting that "to give a necessarily selective and certain privileging interpretations of the event, the press helps to make sense of these political and social movements with meanings, at the same time, overabundant and ambiguous. However, it would be too simple to see only the journalists as "handlers" who manufacture, for your pleasure, the events draw to review biased. They are themselves the subject of manipulation strategies by various social groups that organize demonstrations and look through them, to attract more or less success to the attention of journalists to have a chance of appearing in the media "(Champagne and others, 1998:222). This analysis option also allows us to discuss the applicability of the symbolic interactionism in the context of contemporary sociological research. Thus, we will make an application to social habitation of Porto based on systematic collection of news from two daily newspapers.