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    Raising a new Generation of Leaders

    ARC 212
    SOCIOLOGY OF
    ARCHITECTURE(HOUSING)
    DR. B.A. ADEWALE
    DR. A.O. OWOSENI
    October, 2022
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    …leave a memorable signature on people

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    SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS &
    ARCHITECTURE of HOUSING

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    SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS & ARCHITECTURE of
    HOUSING
    • Housing Choice • Housing Issues in Urban/Rural
    • Home Areas

    • Homelessness • Public Image of Housing Tenures

    • Social differences in Housing • Public Image of People living in


    different Tenures
    • Housing Regimes
    • Housing Policies
    • Role of Housing in Shaping the
    Quality of Life in various parts of
    the Society

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    Home and Homelessness in Architectural Sociology

    What Makes a Home?

    - Decent material conditions and


    standards,
    - Emotional and physical wellbeing,
    - Love and caring social relations,
    - Control and privacy, and
    - Simply living/sleeping place
    (Ibid., 1986: 93-7)

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    Home and Homelessness in Architectural Sociology

    Homelessness

    • Poor material conditions,


    • Lack of emotional and physical well-
    being,
    • Lack of social relations,
    • Lack of Control and privacy, and
    • Simply rooflessness
    (Ibid., 1986: 97- 102)

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    Key Signifiers’ of a Home
    (A wider symbolic meaning)

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    SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS &
    ARCHITECTURE of HOUSING
    Contd.
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    Signifiers of the Home In Architectural Sociology
    1 SHELTER The material form of a home in terms of the physical structure.
    (The decent material conditions)
    2 HEARTH Emotional and physical well-being, warmth and coziness
    (The home atmosphere)

    3 HEART Loving and caring social relations


    (Mutual affection and support of a happy & stable home)

    4 PRIVACY The power to ‘control one’s own boundaries’ (Ryan, 1983),


    (Possession of a certain territory)
    5 ABODE Living/Sleeping place’ whether it be a palace or a park bench.

    6 ROOTS A sense of individual identity; one’s source of identity and meaningfulness

    7 PARADISE Connotes ideal home’ as distinct from the home of everyday life

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