SOCB44H3 Lecture Notes - Louis Wirth, Observational Techniques
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November 5: 141 47, 202 29. Next to the loop downtown area: subway trains on elevated tracks or el , the area around the elevated tracks were called the loop. Lake michigan neighborhood along the shore of lake michigan called the. The other side of this: the slum : immigrants from sicily (south of italy) United charities: ethnographic research first hand observations. Detailed information about rural or isolated locations. Easier to study the slums than the rich because they are more powerless. More difficult to study about the rich because of their life histories or stories resistance. E. g. life story of a charity girl . She doesn"t seem to know anyone, important because people most of the time move when they know a relative or a friend in that city or has personal contact. Chicago is compared with small towns: chicago has a more complete social life, all about individualism.
