Lecture 7 - Place ID Flashcards
Who is the founding father of Place ID?
Proshanksky et al (1983)
Outline Proshanksky et al (1983)
- Argued that the self is not only distinguished from the others
- But the self is also distinguished from objects and the env (inanimate objects are different to us)
- We constantly interact with enviroonment throughout life – its always present
Define PLace ID
Cognitions about the physical world in which the individual lives
- Memories, feelings, values, beliefs, ideals, preference, meanings
- Physical world includes location, structures, objects, layouts of rooms – e.g. restricted areas like the front of a lecture hall
What are the fucntions of Place ID?
Recognition
- Recognising and remembering places – how to act in that place
Meaning
- Knowing meaning of locaation – indicating what behaviour woul dbe acceptable
Expressive requirements
- How to act appropriately – e.g. have more expressive capability or less
Mediating change
- How to make place more comfortable for self/ others
- Noticing when change is required
Anxiety and defence
- Recognising hostility, problems, need for defensive action – e.g. when to leave
Who did the study in surrey docks?
Twigger-Ross & Uzzell (1996)
Outline Twigger-Ross & Uzzell (1996)
Interviewed people in Surrey Docks
“All aspects of identity will, to a greater or lesser extent, have place-related implications”
Examined palce ID in Rotherhithe and Surrey Docks
- At the time, this area was in early stages of gentrification (renovating to become a middle class area)
- Looked at what happened to peoples Place ID as area changed and new people moved in – how did new people feel?
- Used breakwkells model of place ID
Who came up with Identity Process theory?
Breakwell
Outlie Breakwell’s identity process theory
Individuals accommodate, assimilate and evaluate aspects of social worlds as relates to their ID in 4 ways:
1) Distinctiveness – we use Place ID to distinguish ourself
2) Self-Esteem – proud of national ID
3) Continuity – similar to a place I grew up
4) Self-efficacy – degree to which we easily fulfill self in a place
Particularly salient when ID is threatened
Basically argued that as things happen to us, we adapt to them
Outline Distinciveness as part of Breakwell’s identity process theory
- Much of ID is focused on differentiation (group membership)
- We try to distinguish ourselves from others
- Where are you from? – answer to either distinguish or be similar
- Place ID particularly salient way to distinguish self from others
- England vs scotland
- Those in surrey docks distinguished themselves from other london areas
Outline Self-esteem as part of Breakwell’s identity process theory
- Affects how we feel about ourselves
- Satisfaction with current environment
- Pride in national ID
Outline continuity as part of Breakwell’s identity process theory
- Helps to explain life narrative, sense of similarity/ stability
1) place referent continuity
- A single, specific place with emotional or ID related significant
- E.g. where you grow up
2) Place congruent continuity
- Characteristics of a place that are significant, but transferable - characteristics of the one special place that can be transferred to other locations – e.g. living by the sea again
Outline self-efficacy as part of Breakwell’s identity process theory
- Different places enable our behaviours differently
- Highy salient for people with disabilities – places with ramps
- True for everyone to some degree
- degree to which we easily fulfill self in a place
Outline Twigger-Ross & Uzzell’s findings
Distinguished between ‘attached’ and ‘non-attached’ residents (via scale) compared qualitive responses
Attached:
- Disnguished self rom other nearby areas (disntincitvnesss)
- Place continuity either sought, or maintained by staying in docklands
Not-attached:
- Noted difficulty in achieving place-congruent or place-referent continuity
- Noted things inhibiting self-efficacy (noise, dirtiness)
What are the 2 norms in place ID narratives?
1) Norm of home:
- Home involves a cultural assumption of stability, family, belonging – have 1 home that’s the place you belong
- In western world, child leaves home at certain age
- People expected to develop their own home
2) Norm of born and bred:
- A narrative resource/ assumption
- Assumes that your place of birth and upbring is:
- The same place
- Has significance to your family/ ancestory
- Where you ‘truly’ belong
- Excludes those who have moved around
- Creates distinction between authentic, long time residents vs newcomers/ outsiders
- E.g.: Immigrants done have access to born and bred argument
Who interviewed women to do with the norm of home? and what did she find
Taylor (2005)
- Interviewed women – expected to move out and marry and create new home
- people struggle to define home – didn’t have just 1 – didn’t have b+b resource, and if they did, they couldn’t expand on it
