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
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
New Labour Govt said council estates key to
social exclusion in UK
Mooney & Neal, 2009
Suggests that using the words ghetto or estate mentality
reproduces stigmatising stereotypes of particular groups including
the most deprived of society
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
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