SOCIAL SPACE

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SOCIAL SPACE

• Neighborhoods, relations among people in physical
  and institutional space. What are the qualities
  of space that contribute to ethnic feelings?

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• Key issue in readings emphasize how people find
  an ethnic identity in multicultural urban
  society. The sociological tradition
• The 4 readings how they can be used in your
  research
• Driedger defines ethnic identity
• distinguishes structural sociocultural and
  interactionist approaches
• distinguishes behavior, attitudes, concepts.

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• only one form of ethnic identity? Concept of
  Marginality
• variables that are features of peoples ethnic
  identification
• useful checklist for papers, but static and
  categorical.
• Example church attendance what reinforces ethnic
  identity? the building, interaction of
  people...

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• Eating ethnic food Table 6.1Driedger, 90
  average what is it about food that reinforces
  ethnic identity?
• EX. INSTITUTIONALLY COMPLETE COMMUNITY NYC shots
  in film Maria Full of Grace

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Bretons Institutional Completeness

• Institutional approach social organization of
  ethnic communities How structure of ethnic
  community influences members of an ethnic
  community to feel part of that group?
• Macro-level structural features ethnic group run
  church, media, service institutions
• Meso-level features social interaction

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• social boundaries. Social organization of
  ethnic communities can attract and hold members.
• concept of INSTITUTIONAL COMPLETENESS
• Independent variable the ethnic groups having
  a system of own with control over institutions
  Church, welfare organizations, community
  newspapers

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• Dependent variable Friendships proportion of
  people having ties in own ethnic group
• community can have high or low institutionalizatio
  n
• How it works i)substitution, ii) Extension meet
  more of same people, iii)Ethnic entrepreneurship,
  leaders recruit members
• Issues What is difference between social and
  geographical boundaries?

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Fong Shibuya

• Slides my ethnically mixed downtown neighborhood

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• macro-level processes urban structures and
  processes, reflecting minority group relations.
• Note racial and ethnic composition of North
  American cities increasingly diversified. From 4
  (1901) to 13 (2001) nonwhites in Canada.
• RESIDENTIAL PATTERNS Residential Segregation in
  a Multiethnic Context

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• Multiethnicity sheer urban mix, and the numbers
  and relative size
• EFFECTS OF THE PREFERENCE OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC
  GROUPS
• Neighborhood Changes neighborhoods in major
  cities become more integrated more diversified.
• Suburbanization as indicator of group
  integration

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• Example Chinese coming into a new country.The
  tendency to settle in suburbs soon after arrival.
  They live in the suburbs but live with each
  other.
• ETHNIC BUSINESSES may or may not combine people
  from one country.
• Toronto Chinese from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and
  mainland China have their own subethnic business
  networks and customers from their own subethnic
  groups.