Drawing on What You Have Learned from the Dd102 Module Materials and Your Work on Tma 01, Outline Some Inequalities and Differences on a Street That You Know

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Drawing on what you have learned from the DD102 module materials and your work on TMA 01, outline some inequalities and differences on a street that you know.

All streets are distinctive in one way or another; this is how we can observe society actively being made and re made through the inequalities and differences produced through individuals or groups of people. Activities and practises people engage in with each other help shape society in a particular way.

Tower Road is home to many residential and commercial properties. It will be used to illustrate both differences and inequalities, and it will be compared to examples from City Road. The street located directly on the sea front, which enjoys an open view of the beautiful Mediterranean Sea. It is also found to be one to the most up-market streets on the East of the Maltese Islands. The street follows the coastline, which offers unlimited line of rocky beaches, restaurants, cafes and shops. The access to the beach is limited, you must walk down very steep rocky steps and the beaches also offer limited access to the sea with a few ladders along the coastline.

Differences can be observed through groups of people and what they consume, and are linked to various factors such as age, gender, race or class.. On Tower Road you will find examples of similarities, recourses and different kinds of shops, which can produce differences amongst social lives. One will find Healthy Habit style Café’s that offers a vegetarian/ raw food Menus, which are typically higher in price and would only attract a certain group of people opposed to a Lebanese Take Away, which mainly attracts the Arab Community on the Island due to the Halal Menu, which most restaurants do not offer. Both restaurants attract certain groups of people of which their choices are constrained due to the products the consume daily. This may be compared with Xquisite Africa, as this shop appeals to people from different ethnic groups (The Open...