SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Relative Deprivation, Social Class, Neighborhood Watch
Thursday, May 5, 2016
SOCI 101-010
Lecture 23:
-Grassroots Activism
•Trying to block hazardous sites from being built in their neighborhood (succeeded)
•Relative deprivation
-Environmental hazards intentionally being placed in poor/low-educated/older
neighborhoods by the state of California
-Idea: unfairness (to children, and to those because they pay taxes and live there)
•Structural Strains
-Social class tension
-Ethnic/racial tension
-West LA v. East LA
•West
-Richer
-Near the ocean
•East
-Poorer
-Away from ocean
•What did the women have in common?
-Education level (h.s. graduates)
-Mothers
•With kids under 18
-Share ethnic identity as Mexican-Americans
-Share community focus
•They volunteer at school, church, neighborhood associations
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Document Summary
Grassroots activism: trying to block hazardous sites from being built in their neighborhood (succeeded, relative deprivation. Environmental hazards intentionally being placed in poor/low-educated/older neighborhoods by the state of california. Idea: unfairness (to children, and to those because they pay taxes and live there: structural strains. West la v. east la: west. Share community focus: they volunteer at school, church, neighborhood associations. Thursday, may 5, 2016: they care about community and people around them, resources. They have pre-existing neighborhood organizations: neighborhood watch. Catholic priests: to not be afraid of being on tv or of having an opinion. Common goal: to protect their kids, social structure. Mothers" need to organized wouldn"t be affected if california wasn"t treating them unfairly: outcome. Political activism and political power (didn"t start out with) Broke stereotypes: not supposed people to have resources/power. Look for similarity to another article in unit 3 to compare to: race caught in public eye, saints + roughnecks.