Midterm 2 Concentrated

Question 1

Carceral Society

Answer 1

Denotes the spread of social control from prison to society generally. Associated with surveillance, behavioral correction, social control, and the militarization of urban space
- Disproportionately effects people of color, LGBT and immigrants

Question 2

Social Reproduction

Answer 2

Refers to the ways that the workforce is sustained and replenished under capitalism.
- This can include childbirth and child raising and also regenerating the body through food, sleep, pleasure and daily care

Question 3

Why does the assumption of separate spheres of work devalues women ?

Answer 3

Their labor is unpaid, easily manipulated, and exploited. This work often unpaid in families or when it is paid it is usually women workers hired for low wages to do domestic work. Gender is a core process that frames social reproduction since the sexual division of labor is present around the world and because of it women overwhelmingly remain the central caregivers of the young and elderly

Question 4

Spatial Entrapment Hypothesis

Answer 4

Explains that many women are spatially restricted in their job search area and type of employment due to their various domestic responsibilities, especially in suburban areas.

Question 5

Intersectionality

Answer 5

also called intersectional feminism, is a branch of feminism asserting that all aspects of social and political identities (gender, race, class, sexuality, disability, etc.) discrimination overlap (or “intersect”). For example, race with gender in the case of a black woman.
How seemingly disparate indentities not only overlap in individual and group experiences but in fact are mutually contitutive. In other words a persons overlapping identities effect one another.

Question 6

Gay Villages

Answer 6

An urban concentration of LGBT residents or businesses catering to them or both

Question 7

How did Gay Villages founded ?

Answer 7

• Started appearing in NA in mid-late 20th century, due to community and safety in numbers as well as a base for political activism (more weight together)Many gay villages found in disinvested inner-city neighborhoods with historically significant architecture and often home to poorer people of color

Question 8

Why Gay Villages are declining ?

Answer 8

• Gentrification displacing working-class LGBTs and gay bars and businesses
  
  • Greater acceptance = Less need for gay spaces of safety and community?
    ○ Grindr and online dating have lessened importance of gay bars for meeting partners
    Also, the appearance of ‘Post-Gay” which are LGBTs but less marginalized and have less of a “gay look”

Question 9

Postcolonialism

Answer 9

The Era of mass decolonization but does not mean all colonialism is over
Also refers to ways of criticizing the legacies of colonialism that are still apparent in the world today and still shape geopolitical and economic relations between the global North and South

Question 10

Transnationality

Answer 10

Condition of sustained interconnectedness experienced by immigrants whose everyday geographies span social fields located in two or more nation-states

Question 11

Transnationalism

Answer 11

Process by which immigrants build social fields that link together their country of origin and their country of settlement

Question 12

Diaspora

Answer 12

Refers to ethnic groups whose sizable parts have lived outside their country of origin for at least several generations, while maintaining some ties to the homeland

Question 13

Ethnic Enclave

Answer 13

Geographic area with high ethnic concentration, characteristic cultural identity, and economic activity.
The term is usually used to refer to either a residential area or a workspace with a high concentration of ethnic firms.odel of ethnic settlement where dense clustering of residential settlement of a single ethnic group occurs, accompanied by economic and social activity
- Many located in inner cities
- Date to pre-WWII period
- Formed due to discrimination and enforced segregation
- Endangered by gentrification and urban renewal
Ex : ChinaTown, Little Italy

Question 14

Ethnoburb

Answer 14

Form of suburban multiethnic settlement formed bu national and local contextual factors and global restructuring, with characteristics of both a traditional ethnic enclave and a global economic outpost and socially stratified by inter- and interethnic differentiation

- Influence and are influenced by global economics, politics, and culture
- They are typically more diverse than the traditional ethnic enclave where the newer immigrants of various origins and statuses settled directly to the suburbs instead of the inner city