A City’s Materiality

 

TITLE:   A City’s Materiality 
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AUTHOR: Mavarine Du-Marie

DATE: 23 November 2009

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“…I’d say that there are concrete ways that a city’s materiality affects people collectively living in an urban environment, and that is because it impacts substantially in a city’s network structure, as to be inter-related in the social world of people, thereby encompassing what it means to be living in a city due to the fact that it can offer a greater sense of security in society….”

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GLOSSARY NOTE:

Materiality:  is a sociological interpretation of materiality which can be of four things; that it is judged in terms of its inherent nature, that impacts or influences in its value, and by its use of that value regarding the affects in a social world, and the circumstances for the context in which materiality occurs in the social order.

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Material Artefacts, Humans & Social Worlds

 

TITLE: A Essay on Material Artefacts, Humans and Social Worlds
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AUTHOR: Mavarine Du-Marie

DATE: 26th October 2009

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For I concur with Carter (2008) when he states that:

“…all these materials, all these things, can be used to generate effects, whether it’s power, authority or agency. So, if we look at social worlds in this way, almost all our social relations are mediated through material artefacts of one type or another [and in] conclusion, then, material objects – whether they’re machines, buildings, books, computers – all contribute to the building of ordered social worlds and it’s not a question of whether the social or the material determines the other. Rather, it’s by considering the social and the material simultaneously in all their complexity that we have a chance of understanding social worlds…”

In his explanation regarding the framework of why we need artefacts in the social world because I also think society needs to be collocate.