Drawing on What You Have Learned About City Road from the Making Social Lives Dvd and the Learning Companion 1, Describe Some of the Ways in Which Order Is Made and Repaired on a Street Which You Know.
Task 1:
Drawing on what you have learned about City Road from the Making Social Lives DVD and the Learning Companion 1, describe some of the ways in which order is made and repaired on a street which you know.
What is social order?
Social order is the manner in which a society is organized and rules and standards required to maintain that organization. (MMD, 2009)
In this essay, my aim is to describe some of the ways in which order is made and repaired. The street that I have chosen to use is Sidcup high street in Kent. I will draw along three main points through this essay. These points are as follows:
1. Visible and invisble ordering
2. Traffic management
3. People
This first point is Ordering. As with any other street, there are many examples of ordering, both visible and invisible. One example of visible ordering on the high street is traffic lights and pedestrian crossings. This street furniture is put into place to keep order to drivers and pedestrians.
Quite often in Sidcup high street, this order is disrupted by unruly drivers who speed up to rush past the amber light before it turns red, and impatient pedestrians who run across the road without waiting until it is safe. It is instances like this, that a figure in authority i.e. a police officer will intervine to put order back into society. An example of invisible ordering on Sidcup high street is maintenance. Maintenance is a very important job and should be done on a regular basis. Problems with the electicity can cause disruptions to society. For example: In 2009, Most of Bexley, (and other towns) was plunged into darkness as all power suddenly failed. This was due to vandals setting fire to the mains and damaging four main electricity circuts. (R.Fisk, 2009) Workers on Sidcup high street suffered because of this, as all shops had to close due to this. The EDF company had workers on the case to get the disruption fixed. To keep things calm and stop any additional trouble forming to any
Drawing on what you have learned about City Road from the Making Social Lives DVD and the Learning Companion 1, describe some of the ways in which order is made and repaired on a street which you know.
What is social order?
Social order is the manner in which a society is organized and rules and standards required to maintain that organization. (MMD, 2009)
In this essay, my aim is to describe some of the ways in which order is made and repaired. The street that I have chosen to use is Sidcup high street in Kent. I will draw along three main points through this essay. These points are as follows:
1. Visible and invisble ordering
2. Traffic management
3. People
This first point is Ordering. As with any other street, there are many examples of ordering, both visible and invisible. One example of visible ordering on the high street is traffic lights and pedestrian crossings. This street furniture is put into place to keep order to drivers and pedestrians.
Quite often in Sidcup high street, this order is disrupted by unruly drivers who speed up to rush past the amber light before it turns red, and impatient pedestrians who run across the road without waiting until it is safe. It is instances like this, that a figure in authority i.e. a police officer will intervine to put order back into society. An example of invisible ordering on Sidcup high street is maintenance. Maintenance is a very important job and should be done on a regular basis. Problems with the electicity can cause disruptions to society. For example: In 2009, Most of Bexley, (and other towns) was plunged into darkness as all power suddenly failed. This was due to vandals setting fire to the mains and damaging four main electricity circuts. (R.Fisk, 2009) Workers on Sidcup high street suffered because of this, as all shops had to close due to this. The EDF company had workers on the case to get the disruption fixed. To keep things calm and stop any additional trouble forming to any
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