Idea 2: Space

Space

–noun

1. the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.

2. the portion or extent of this in a given instance; extent or room in three dimensions: the space occupied by a body.

3. extent or area in two dimensions; a particular extent of surface: to fill out blank spaces in a document.

4. Fine Arts .

a. the designed and structured surface of a picture: In Mondrian's later work he organized space in highly complex rhythms.

b. the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional surface.

In my most recent meeting with Paul, we discussed how people act differently in distinctive spaces and how women have done this for decades.  Women have a tendency to change personalities depending on various situations. Women interact very differently communicating through a text to a significant other as opposed to an email to a friend.  I have become interested in the space that women spend the most time in and how they relate to that space. 

“The most typical separation is that the division of public and private, where the private home is a women’s sphere and the public marketplace a men’s sphere. It relates to many different historical and biological reasons, but exaggerated by socially constructed as a symbolic differences.”

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"Our behavior is purposeful; we live in a psychological reality or life space

that includes not only those parts of our physical and social environment to us but also imagined states that do not currently exist." quotation by psychologist Kurt Lewin

Articles: http://anthro.palomar.edu/social/soc_3.htm

http://sc6214.wetpaint.com/page/4.2.1+Gendered+Segregation+of+Different+Places

Annotated bibliography:

O’Neil, Dennis. Personality Development.  4 July 2006.  9 February 2011. <http://anthro.palomar.edu/social/soc_3.htm>.

This article is about personality development and how people’s characteristics make them different and unique from other people. In this article they discuss how hereditary, environmental influences, and certain unique situations or events contribute to personality development as well.  

Gender, Culture and Society.  Gendered Segregation of Different Places.  9 February 2011. <http://sc6214.wetpaint.com/page/4.2.1+Gendered+Segregation+of+Different+Places>.

This article is about the boundaries of segregated spaces between men and women.  Also this article discusses the differences between men and women occupying space.