Analyze Human Territorialism As A Social Norm

There is a reason behind almost everything that humans do during everyday life. However, we do not think about why we waved back at the person across the street, we just do it. Interpreting that person’s wave and reacting to it by waving back, smiling, or nodding is a part of sociology. After taking a sociology class you realize all these everyday behaviors have meaning. Now, all of a sudden I found myself thinking sociologically when I get into an elevator, wait in line at the grocery store, or even how I view myself.

Human behaviour is the response to given stimuli, which are socially and environmentally affected. This response is something that can easily be influenced and shaped through many personal, situational, social, biological, mental factors. In this essay the case of social norms influencing human behaviour will be analyzed using previous studies. Social norms are part of a larger influential scale generally named as social influence. Social influence is the exercise of power that an individual or a group can use on other individuals or society in order to alter their attitudes, behaviours and lead them to a desired

Using criminological terms and concepts, focus on a jurisdiction, neighborhood, or geographic locale with which you are familiar. Regarding a human behavior which you select to focus on in that geographical space, write two concise yet comprehensive paragraphs on how social disorganization theory can inform your understanding of behavior and place, and one weakness which would find your understanding somehow lacking, and why. Then write two equally compelling paragraphs on how routine activities theory would foster your understanding, and one weakness which might leave your understanding lacking, and why.

Territoriality is the desire and ability of legitimate users of a certain area to lay claim to it. This element of CPTED is considered the most important. This element of defensible space means that property and/or buildings are owned by an individual(s) and nobody else can claim it. Residents, owners, and others including offenders recognize the ownership and they make decisions with this knowledge. Territoriality can be either symbolic or real. Symbolic territoriality is landscape, signs, etc.

The urban space not only reflects the profound changes in people's lives, but also reveals many social problems. Different element which includes the building, neighborhoods, housing and transportation create a sense of spatial relationship and emphasize the importance of equality in opportunity and comprehensive development. According to the article of “Why Spatial, Why Justice, Why LA”, Edward W. Soja defines the concept of “spatiality justice” as, “an integral and formative component of justice itself, a vital part of how justice and injustice are socially constructed and evolve over time” (1, Soja). In this way, he illustrates that the spatial justice becomes fundamentally important in our society and the struggle over geography is

When using the term “Street”, or “Neighbourhood” in context of where we live, it is usually referencing more than just a geographical location, but rather a collective of all the elements that go into making it what it is, especially the people. A good neighbour is someone who understands the socially constructed rules of behaviour that goes with the title, and this essay will be looking at how boundaries, or “fences”, that these mostly unwritten rules are based upon, and also, how they are broken and repaired.

Human societies occupy various regions of the earth, information and encounters are traded within all of these societies, but humans do much more than trade information; the space they are located in becomes part of a wider spatial order in which the people within that space are located into their own spatial form. Grime culture arose from council estates within London and people within council estates will be located with a greater degree of separation, dense within their own grouping but sparsely connected to the rest of the world.(reference 27 social logic of space) Alongside being physically separated from outer-estate life, council estates have become something of a class-symbol, a psycho-socio bruise given by

Soja suggests that although historical and social imaginations of a community give a good insight to what a society is this dialectic is not enough when you want to have a full understanding of how a community behave (Soja). He suggests that the spaces in which people occupy (spatiality) should be adopted with the same importance and a trialectic approach should be adopted (Soja).

Individualism is an idea or norm that one opt to live as they feel like and the life belongs to that individual, thus lives as he/she sees fit, at on own judgment and his/her efforts and pursue values and beliefs of his own choice. “It’s the idea that the individual is sovereign, an end in himself, and the fundamental unit of moral concern,” (The Objective Standard, 2016). Collectivism on other side is the idea that an individual’s life belongs to a group or community instead of their own. Thus, an individual has no rights of their own except for what is defined by the group as the norm. This leads to sacrifices of one owns values and goals for the group is greater good. Collectivism is mainly used in my country where I come from, hence we have saying that it takes the entire village to raise a child. This simply means that particular group henceforth makes hat we work as group of our association and decisions. “From the day of his birth until the day of his death society allows him to enjoy certain so-called rights and deprives him of others; not . . . because society desires especially to favour or oppress the individual, but because its own preservation, welfare, and happiness are the prime considerations,” (The Objective Standard, 2016). My culture involves collectiveness where as I have peers from all over the world hence, it is easy to observe

In the President Election between Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton, people have different views on each candidate. In addition, people are afraid to talk about their political views, because they are afraid to get disapproved. Just as how neighbor doesn’t want to talk to each other, for they worried about there were different opinions and stands. In the article, the author had explained ‘The territorial meaning focuses more on the specific area and identification of components of the neighborhood definition, with analysis of the economic dependence and political impotence of the local community” (Neighborhood - Loss of The Neighborhood). In this quote, we can see that political view is the major barrier between people with their neighbor. There might be argument when we have different political views, and we started to dislike each other based on our views are different. Political view is not the only barrier, but the financial dependence is also because of neighbor become

Norms are viewed as important rules and beliefs set by the society as their way of not only shaping a group but more importantly as their way of maintaining order. More often than not, these rules and expectations are implicitly dictated by the society and are valued as a standard how an individual should behave or dress. At times, expected behaviors are explicitly set by the group. Some sociologists believe norms are created by individuals in order to promote order in a group. On the other hand, some scholars argue that social norms are created primarily to stimulate roles, thus reinforcing the stability of a social class. Although the reason behind the emergence and reality of norms are unclear, what is certain is that these norms are

As we all have observed, throughout history each culture or society has unique norms that are acceptable to that group of people. Therefore, to establish and come to the acceptance of these basic norms, each society must develop its’ own strategies and techniques to encourage the fundamentals of behavior, which is clear in our modern society. Most do assume that everyone in a society will follow and respect such norms. However, some tend to deviate from the adequate norms and demonstrate deviant behavior. Nevertheless, we are inclined to ask ourselves, why do people decide to violate such important standards of living?

Shared community responsibility leads to more effort in the care of a shared space, when individuals see a problem they are more likely to try to fix the issue; this may be by taking action or calling the police (Sakip, S. M., Johari, N., & Salleh, M. M. 2012). This can include insuring that shared space is clean and tidy, making sure no criminal activity occurs, and reporting any criminal or deviant behavior. This falls into the territoriality branch of CPTED and the more territorial individuals are to their community and shared space, the more defensive and accountable they will be for that

Territoriality can be defined as the protection of a temporary created space, wherein the creator of the space claims ownership and occupancy on the area. We operationally defined territoriality: it is the time it takes for a participant (driver) to contact with the car (start timer) to the time (in seconds) it takes for the participant’s front bumper to leave the parking space. This definition can also be stated as departure time.

In the third part of the book, Harvey talks about the concept where Spatial justice connects together social justice and spaces, most dominantly. It is also mentioned that Spatial Organization is a crucial dimension and aspect of Society and it precisely reflects social facts and influences social relations .Hence, justice and injustice both the aspects becomes more visible in space. Therefore, it becomes important to understand social injustice in totality and formulate territorial policies accordingly aiming to tackle them by analysing the interactions between space and society. It is at this junction that the concept of spatial justice has been developed. Space as we know, is a fundamental dimension of human societies, social justice is embedded in it.