Article Title:Social Change and Social Dislocations in the Inner City
*** great importance to read***
Author: W.J Wilson
Week Reading was assigned: July 23, 2008
Name: Jordan MacDonald
Keywords: race, inequality, jobs, African Americans, Latinos, family,
social location and isolation, lower class, employment
Reading Summary:
This article is basically a compilation and analysis
of statistics about inner city people.
It’s main argument is that poverty
does not occur because it has been developed through “culture”.
Instead, it is continued through social isolation in which contact
between groups of different classes or race is minimal.
The effects of
this include a lack of opportunities in disadvantaged areas, minimal
access to jobs and job networks, quality of education, and a lack of
exposure to role models.
Poverty is very complex, and many people,
in an attempt to analyze it, fall into the trap of discrimination.
Many
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This note was uploaded on 11/16/2010 for the course SOCIO Soc 1 taught by Professor Mitchell during the Winter '08 term at UCLA.
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