Social Cohesion & Cultural Diversity: poly-centricity

8 important questions on Social Cohesion & Cultural Diversity: poly-centricity

What is the  general structure of a city?

The centre is rich, the preriveries are poor (rent more houses, lower educational achievement, etc.)

In general there is no communication inter-mingling between the centre and the prerivery.

What is an example of a poly-functional place?

A busstop. It can be used by an individual to wait for the bus, but by another person to hang around at night and drink/chat/smoke there.

Describe the two schools of thought of conviviality

1) We manage to get on with each other;
2) we manage to get on with each other and as we live together we creolize(mingle). Inter-mingled--->elements from several parties.
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What are fleeting encounters?

People engage at train stations, traffic lights, ets. There is a common bond, in this case because both are waiting.

What are mono-logical & dialogical settings?

Mono-logical: only one language is spoken, for example in the setting of a class.

Dialogical: during break-time multiple international students go outside and speak different languages.

What are faith communities?

Mushroom fatih communities that pop-up and dissapear.

How can the infrastructure of globalization be described?

Background individual migrants:
- different countries of origin;
- different community/culture;
- Different language;
- Some faith ---> = glue.

What is an infrastructure for migrants?

Becoming/being a place were migrants can meet and are allowed to do something.

There are state owned infrastructures (official infrastructures) and unofficial unfrastructures (born out of migration wave, no legal status).

Conviviality takes place within the structures of globalization.

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