Family, Child Rearing, And Socio Economical Class

The purpose for writing this essay is to demonstrate how gentrification is shaping the Culture and identity for Halrmites from the socio-economic perspective. Harlem has changed dramatically over the last two decades due to improvement in housing stock and outside investments into the community. However, in my essay, I articulated my ideas toward the economic aspect of gentrification because gentrification is driven by class, not race. My audience would be the lower income Harlem residents who have been displaced or on the verge of displacement because their wealth is not contributing to the economy. The people who have been preserving the cultural identity of Harlem for decades now forced to leave the community. I tried my best to connect a broader audience by explaining the deteriorated housing condition of Harlem and how it led to gentrification. This will help reader

David Berreby who is known as the author of “It Takes a Tribe,” was born in France in 1958. He was raised by an American mother and a Jewish father. Berreby talks about the lifestyle of being a college student in gaining a respectable position in the hierarchy of a college tradition within the club membership. David Berrebys’ analysis of ‘us’ v’s ‘them’ brings an impact to all the students because they feel like they need to find or join a group in which they belong to. As for David Brooks, the author of “Our Sprawling Supersize Utopia” who was born in Toronto, Ontario. Brooks was born and raised by his American citizen father in Canada. He made a claim on how suburbs were sprawling and the lifestyles in this society are becoming complex for those people who desire to expand their way of adapting and living in the different environment. Both authors have the same similarities for advancing in a new way of living and as a group, people should be addressed in fitting in a particular social society.

New York City’s population is a little over 8.3 million people. 8.3 million people are spread out among five boroughs and each have their own set routine. Each one of those 8.3 million see New York in a different way becuase “You start building your private New York the first time you lay eyes on it” (“City Limits” 4). Some people are like Colson Whitehead who “was born here and thus ruined for anywhere else” (“City Limits” 3). Others may have “moved here a couple years ago for a job. Maybe [they] came here for school” (“City Limits” 3). Different reasons have brought these people together. They are grouped as New Yorkers, but many times, living in New York is their only bond. With on going changes and never ending commotion, it is hard to

African Americans have come a long way in the last few decades. We have more rights, more opportunities to grow and prosper and more independence than ever before. But the same cannot be said for African American families as a whole. The African American family and community is in trouble (Tilove, 2005). These families are facing many issues today that are contributing to their break down. These factors include poverty, diminishing health, welfare, incarceration, the struggle to find housing and the challenges involved with providing children with higher education. The disintegration of families have gone on for too long and it’s time we do something about it (“Current Challenges”, n.d.).

“It got to be easy to look at New Yorkers as animals, especially looking down from some place like a balcony at Grand Central at the rush hour Friday afternoon.” (Tom Wolfe). “O Rotten Gotham” argues that New Yorkers are in a state of behavioral sink. It would not be long before a “population collapse” or a “massive die off”.

The theoretical conversation Ralph explores in the book is isolation. He draws ideas from Wacqaunt and Wilson’s The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City. In the article, the central argument is there is an interrelated set of characteristics that corresponds to social-structural problems in the inner city and the process has triggered “hyper-ghettoization.” The evidences Wacquant and Wilson present are mainly statistical and anthropology data. The article explains many of the residents are isolated due to the social-structural, economic, and political issues that surround them. The residents being moved by

6 years ago, when I came to the land of freedom and liberty, I was mesmerized about how well NYC is well-developed than in my home country, Bangladesh. As my family and I see those neon lights, and upstanding crowd of vehicles; I felt jolly due to a fact that, I was in an urban-like city. At first, my family and I used to live in Woodhaven Blvd. The private house feels cozy during those winter nights.

As a conclusion, we saw that urbanization and gentrification have paced numerous evolutions in New-York city that has changed, consequently, the lifestyle of its citizens. But also that in order to reduce consumption or for simply saved money, Americans are willing to change their habits.

People may be driven by personal will here, but there is still kindness and concern for mutual success. New York City may not be completely characterized by the disregard for other people that society has come to associate with it. For me this hankers back to Rousseau and Marx. Individual will must be entwined with general will to create a cohesive

Finally, the last way Miller promotes his dissipation of America is through the issue of individuality. During America’s so-called glory days, one of the greatest defining traits of society was the feeling of individuality. Many articles during the early 20th Century focused on the idea that in our culture, anybody could make a name for their self and become a true individual among the crowd. However, while this sense of individuality was important at the time, it clearly did not

Human interaction become short and instrumental lacking emotional and personal involvement. We choose our relationships and social groups for objective reasons. Georg Simmel’s The Metropolis and Mental Life” demonstrates the importance of money to us: “Money, with all its colorless and indifference becomes the common denominator of all values” (27). These choices tend to be goal oriented, such as in “what am i going to get out of this?” and “Is this really worth my time”. Simmel focused on two forms of culture, found either in the small town or the large city, subjective and objective. He found that a key urban problem was the increased objective culture, where individuals are not fully engaged in the culture of the community; they are detached

This Sociology of the Family class has been an eye-opening experience. My views of the United States have been impacted by an objective comparison of their policies to those of other nations. I have learned that my own experiences growing up impacted me beyond how they did directly at the time they happened. Finally, the most dramatic of all was seeing how my own socialization has impacted the way I viewed the world.

I love your explanation on how social class effects families Yes, you are correct when you are ready to choose who you want to spend your life with you are emphasizing on family history. You are committing your life to somebody forever how long so you are have to find somebody who will match your social class lifestyle. The upper class focus on the status of their spouse big time. Chances of families living in broken homes are common for families from low income families. Some families believe that there is no hope for them and they don’t feel as if they will never get out of their situations. This leads to tension and results in divorce for these types of families. Child rearing does play a huge role in low income families. Most parents from

Over the years, the Role of Class Position of My Family has been a critical pillar towards my success and direction of my life especially in education and social life. As globalization and the digital era continue to shape the socioeconomic environment, my family has consistently remained focused towards enhancing effective moral character in our family for future orientations. It is through such supportive parenting that I have been able to establish my social networks within the society and learned the virtues of cooperation, sharing with others and above all not to discriminate others on the basis of gender, race or even their family backgrounds.

Simmel, Georg. “The Metropolis of the Modern Life in Levine” Donald (ed.) 'Simmel: On Individuality and Social Forms, Chicago University Press, p.324. 1971. Available at: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo3622859.html. Accessed on 19 August