Drawing on What You Have Learned About City Road, Describe How Material Things Create Winners and Losers on a Street You Know.

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Drawing on what you have learned about City Road from the Making Social Lived DVD and Learning Companion 1, describe how material things help to create winners and losers on a street you know. After studying the module materials on City Road it is clear to see how material things help to create winners and losers. Material things have a different impact depending on gender, sexuality, age, race and class. For this particular essay I have chosen a street in Twickenham, the town in which I live. The street is called King Street, a street which I am very familiar with. It has many restaurants and big name stores as well as independent shops. I aim to show, by using different examples, the similarities and differences between my chosen street and City Road. Like City Road, when we met Janet who owns the Xsquisite Africa shop (The Street, 2009, scene 2) King Street has its own Indian shop which also caters for a particular ethnic minority. It sells authentic indian products and enables members of this ethnic group to feel a sense of belonging within the community. This has been accepted very positively by the local residents, with some of the community even venturing into the shop and purchasing some of the products on offer, hence both the shop owner and the local community being winners. Charity shops play a significant feature in King Street, with there being five in total. Some parts of Twickenham and surrounding areas such as Richmond are known for being affluent, the residents regularly donate clothes among other things to the charity shops. There are however, less wealthy areas and it’s the people from these particular areas that are the winners as they are able to buy good quality clothes at lower prices. This demonstrates how class determines where you may shop and whether you are a winner or a loser. Similar to

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