SOC-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Teenage Pregnancy, Aid To Families With Dependent Children, Urban Ecology
18 Feb 2016
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Urbanization more than half of the world"s populations lives in cities. Urban ecology (robert park and ernest burggess): social groups compete over scarce resources leads to differentiation, efficiency and equilibrium. Social isolation more than half of apartments in manhattan are for individual residents. Size, density, heterogeneity or urban areas leads to isolation, alienation, freedom and more extreme differentiation. Challenges to social connection and cohesion, prevalence of social problems (ex. poverty and crime) Emergence of an urban underclass in late 1960s and early 1990s with a subpopulation of low income families who manifest distinctly different behaviors than the general population. Argues against liberals who deny problem, conservatives who blame individual deficiencies or government largesse, and also those who attribute the problem to institutional racism. Joblessness african american unemployment is more than double of white since 1954 (irony hat this increase to ore than 2:1 all occurs after civil rights legislation)
