Drawing on What You Have Learned About City Road from the Making Social Lives Dvd and Learning Companion 1, Describe Some of the Ways in Which Order Is Made and Repaired on the Street Which You Know

Drawing on what you wear learned about City Road from the Making Social Lives DVD and Learning Companion 1, withdraw round of the ways in which drift is made and repaired on the highroad which you k at one time. The purpose of this assignment is to oppose and contrast the well-disposed drift of City Road with a local road to demonstrate how order is made and is continually repaired over time. Abington path, has interchanged considerably over the past 50 years, from a quiet route of individually owned shops such as, Halford Jewellers, Benefit footwear, and only one a big convenience hold on.Today, you bequeath find fewer individually owned and many more big name high street shops, such as Primark and Tesco Express. Firstly, I will compare Abington roadway, and how it has changed to City Road. Abington Street holdd to be the master(prenominal) thoroughfare to the town centre, with a tram running down the centre of the street creating in patent order, nowadays the stree t remains invisibly ordered but is used differently as it is now completely pedestrianised. It is both a daytime shopping zone and a night time neighborly space.Meanwhile City Road has changed from a simple country road to a busy town with road, however similarities still exist with Abington Street as both are now shopping and social spaces, as City Roads 1960s car showrooms, have been replaced by shops, cafes, takeaways and restaurants designed for a massive range of people. With the changes in use, have coif the changes in visible order, Abington Streets use changes throughout the day, in a very similar way to City Road.Shopping is the daytime occupation, with people eating and drinking in the cafes, visible order is demonstrated by adherence to the societys rules as people queue in orderly fashion to purchase goods. Disruption of social order occasionally happens when for example, shoplifting occurs, however this is deterred by CCTV keeping invisible order and is repaired by the presence of security guards preventing further incidents. Social order is defend at night in Abington Street as well as in City Road, at night the shops close, as the takeaways, pubs and clubs open. Young people then use Abington Street for entertainment rather than for shopping.Although, Abington Street brings in different types of people during the different times of day, different shops and venues are aimed at certain groups of people. The junior generation use fast food takeaways or go to socialise at the pubs at night, whilst in the DVD Jose Romas Surez, from Taste bud cafe talks about how mostly elderly customers regularly come back to his cafe during the day, because they feel secure in there this could be to do with the types of people victimisation the streets during a day the elderly or school children (Making Social Lives on City Road DVD, 2009, stage setting 3).Most invisible social order at night in Abington Street is maintained by the use of CCTV, whilst visib le night time order is maintained by the presence of club bouncers, the police and local community entertain officers. Young people may see the presence of the police and community support workers as a deterrent to them having fun, whilst the shopkeepers rely on the police to maintain social order and nurse their property from drunken or accidental bad behaviour.Social order is also affected by the influx of big business concern this is demonstrated in the DVD, which shows how the arrival of Tesco Express to City Road results in the pulley-block of smaller businesses. There are inequalities between local shops and the big named supermarkets on both streets. On Abington Street there are two very dominant stores, Tesco Express again as well as Marks and Spencers. Both of these shops have a large variety of products on offer at combative prices these stores also have a wider range of goods for the convenience of the customers.In City Road, like in Abington Street, the smaller busi ness owner reports adverse affects, an example of this is Colin Butwell (the newsagent),he described how he had been affected, saying that Tesco moving in close to his store has resulted in a reduction in trade. On the positive side the opening of well know chains sack up have a positive effect on remaking society, and social ordering, as it arouse bring about more jobs, and encourage people to use the area more resulting in other places such as cafes, restaurants being busier.As Georgina Blakely point out some people gain from the reshaping and some people lose (Making Social Lives, 2009, Scene 5). In conclusion, social order will always inquire to adapt, change and be continually restructured, and repaired to meet societys requirements. The effects of a single change can have a massive impact on a street and the people that it involves. This can be seen in the effect that pedestrianisation had on Abington Streets main uses, it is also clear to see that the slightest change can have a massive impact on the social ordering of the area. This can be use to any street in the world. 814 WORDSBibliography, * Blakeley, G. , Bromley, S. ,Clarke, J. , Raghuram, P. , Silva, E. and Taylor, S. (2009) Learning Companion 1,Introducing the social sciences, Milton Keynes, The pay University. * The street (2009)Making Social LivesDVD, Milton Keynes, The Open University. * What have you enjoyed about starting this module? I have enjoyed getting back into studying again, after(prenominal) leaving college. Im definitely looking forward to the rest of this course. What have you found toilsome? Time management is my main difficulty, juggling working and writing an assignment but Im sure I will find this easier as time goes on.