WEEK1-Independent Stdudy

• 3 short statements of describing 3 concepts of "home"

1. "I feel comfortable and secure. I am at home. Sleep comes quickly."-This is a feeling exactly same as me when I am at home. Home makes me comfortable as I have no limit to do anything that I want to do and no one would obstruct. Home makes me secure as this is a place belongs to me and only people belong to this home could come in this place.This is a place I can eat, wash, sleep etc. which becomes a significant part of my life.
2. "The boundaries of home seemingly extend beyond its walls to the neighborhood, even the suburb,town or city. Home is place but it is also a space inhabited by family,people,things and belongings-a familiar, if not comfortable space where particular activities and relationships are lived. In my account home is a virtual place, a repository for memories of the lived spaces."-Home is a place I can meet up with families and friends, celebrates birthdays&festivals, relax myself like watch my favorite actor's movie, listen blues and read magazine.Or, even do nothing just sleep for whole day. Sometimes, the place of home is changed, for example, I moved to a new house when I was 12 years old.Things have been changed in new house, new furnishings, new neighbors...however, this is a new place I live in, it's still my home which is a place I have a sense of belonging.
3. "The home is a major political background-for feminists, who see it in the crucible of gender domination; for liberals, who identify it with personal autonomy and a challenge to state power, for socialists, who approach it as a challenge to collective life and the ideal of a planned and egalitarian social order."-Home is not a only political background, it's also a religion background. If there is one person in family believes in god, this person can affect other family member by his/her conversations and behaviors in daily life.

Reference:
Mallett, S. (2004). Understanding home: a critical review of the literature. The Sociological Review, 52(1), 62-89.