dd208 Problem People,Problem Places

dd208 Problem People,Problem Places

1. The council estate

   • Youth offending, teenage pregnancies, unemployment, welfare and benefit 'cultures' violence & disorder
     • Neighbours from hell
   • Scotland used the terms > Neds - non-educated delinquents
   • Some journalists describes council housing as a living tomb dare not give up house never get another but staying is like being trapped in a ghetto both in place and mind
   • Council estates did not always carry social stigma
     • 1920s/30s and time after 2nd world war they met the acute housing needs of millions of people in UK

2. Hanley, 2007

   • Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, Petty Stupidity and a Stir Craziness induced by Chronic Poverty
     • Hanleys idea fits in well with wider mainstream media represenations of council estates
       • Hanley sees estates as a SYMBOL OF FAILURE
         • Generate subcultures

3. New Labour Govt said council estates key to social exclusion in UK

4. Mooney & Neal, 2009

   • Suggests that using the words ghetto or estate mentality reproduces stigmatising stereotypes of particular groups including the most deprived of society

5. Sociologis Sean Damer Glasgow 1970's/80s

   • Rehousing estates or schemes which accomodated families displaced through slum clearance programmes
     • Notoriety - violence, drunkenness and assorted social problems with Govan district Moorepark scheme becoming known as wine alley
       • Negative reputation - ideas of probem families, problem tenants, problem states
         • Damers research - speaking to residents, police, housing officials, archives - explained rep
           • EXPLAINED HISTORICAL REPUTATION PROBLEM PEOPLE PROBLEM PLACES

6. Segregation & sitmatisatio marginal society myths

   • Perlam, 1976
   • Tis represents the idea epeople living in poverty as hopeless, deficient adn disorganised masses surplus to society
     • Stigmatisation of this kind devalues experiences, perspectives and voices of people who live in places regarded as problematic
       • People struglling to survive develop skills, resources, capabilities - it is the eonomic resources available to them that are deficient
         • Polititical struggles for better resources, welfare support, community facilities and resistance of stigmatisation and negative labelling
           • Disadvantaged people have a long history of collective organisation and mobilisatin to get heard