Urban Sociological Analysis

According to newworldencyclopedia.org, sociological concepts such as “social distance” and “the marginal man” were first used by American urban sociologist Robert Erza Park in 1982. By Wikipedia this term is defined as “a situation in which an individual suspended between 2 cultural realities may struggle to establish his or her identity.” For me, marginalization simply means something when a person is outside of a particular society.

According to newworldencyclopedia.org, sociological concepts such as “social distance” and “the marginal man” were first used by American urban sociologist Robert Ezra Park in 1982. By Wikipedia this term is defined as “a situation in which an individual suspended between 2 cultural realities may struggle to establish his or her identity.” For me, marginalization simply means something when a person is outside of a particular society.

Do you believe you are disadvantaged? What does it mean to be ethnically, economically and educationally disadvantaged?

I will be applying the three major sociological perspectives, which include functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism to the experiences of Hispanic Americans. No ethnic group attracts more public attention than the Hispanic people do due to their large numbers, their residential clustering, and bilingual programs and signs associated with them making them a recognizable ethnic group. Hispanic people who live in poverty or the small number involved in gangs, drugs, or other criminal activity get more attention and generate negative stereotypes, but most of them live as members of the middle class.

For instance, white people or people who have privilege, meaning that they have a career and a job, are privileged. On the other hand, there are a lot of disadvantaged population that won’t have the opportunity to live as their white folks. Disadvantaged population can be a minority of Whites, African-American, Hispanic and other minorities that didn’t developed the tools and skills to compete with a privileged population. For instance, the educational system is one encourages privilege and disadvantage separating the population more and more, creating a culture of acceptance and low skills as a norm among

Washington Heights is a unique and ever changing neighborhood at the mezzo-level, but affects the macro and micro. It located in upper Manhattan that is north of Harlem and south of Inwood. Begins on 115th street, it is typically thought to end around Hillside Avenue. This neighborhood has the Hudson River on the west and the Harlem River to the east. New York City’s Community Planning has designated Washington Heights and Inwood as Manhattan Community District 12. These two communities are similar in their ethnic populations, make up the tip of the borough of Manhattan, and are often assessed by the government as one district. The 2003 New York City Community Health Profile reported that 270,677 people living in District 12 and “one in two

“Words are not passive; indeed, they help to share and create our perceptions of the world around us. The terms we choose to label or describe events must, therefore, convey appropriate connotations or images of the phenomenon under consideration in order to avoid serious misunderstandings. The existence of different terms to describe gentrification is not an accident, neither is the plethora of definitions for it” (Palen & London, 1984, p. 6). SAY SOMETHING Peter Marcuse (1999) argues that, “how gentrification is evaluated depends a great deal on how it is defined” (p. 789). Defining gentrification properly is necessary for anchoring an analysis of neighborhood change, particularly in light of recent scholarly efforts to replace the term (to describe the process) with less critical names like: ‘urban renaissance’,

Marginality talks about the differences in gender and origin and how we are descendants from the original inhabitants who have been on the lands way before the European settlers arrived. Also that some are even descendants from the African

I recently saw the film, 42, and I found many connections with our Sociology of Sport class. First and foremost, the movie was about the baseball legend, Jackie Robinson. Jack broke the baseball color barrier and was the first African American player allowed in Major League Baseball. He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers beginning in 1947. Jack was a strong, talented player, but he also had a mind of his own. He played with an attitude that would be taunting to other players. When he made it to the Montreal Royals in 1946, he had to quickly get rid of this taunting, smart attitude. He was the only black player in a time of hatred and prejudice in the United States. Although he

Beginning in the 1960s, middle and upper class populations began moving out of the suburbs and back into urban areas. At first, this revitalization of urban areas was "treated as a ‘back to the city' movement of suburbanites, but recent research has shown it to be a much more complicated phenomenon" (Schwirian 96). This phenomenon was coined "gentrification" by researcher Ruth Glass in 1964 to describe the residential movement of middle-class people into low-income areas of London (Zukin 131). More specifically, gentrification is the renovation of previously poor urban dwellings, typically into condominiums, aimed at upper and middle class professionals. Since the 1960s, gentrification has appeared in

In this course I have learned about different social problems in societies worldwide. Some of these include poverty, social inequality, discrimination of race and culture, urbanization, and more. After learning all these subjects and more, I have decided to do my final on social inequality and minorities in the United States. I chose this particular topic because I have seen this in almost every place have lived. I find it appalling that minorities are still not treated 100% equal. We as Americans know what inequality is and know how it is used in our everyday society. I want to explore this topic and show how real and big this

While watching the film, City of God, I was able to recognize many aspects of the Social Structure Theories, especially as it applies to social disorganization theory, strain theory and cultural deviance theory. These three sub-theories explain the association between poverty and delinquency further connecting how being poor leads to being delinquent. The City of God is a squatter settlement or favelas on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Favela is a community whose inhabitants neither own nor have formal permission to occupy the land.

All around the world there are major marginalization issues occurring. In Uganda, South Africa, the Karamojong tribe is suffering from discrimination. The Karamojong people are labeled and identified as struggling people, so therefore they do not receive as much opportunities as successful tribes do in other countries(Peace for Paul).Marginalization is a term where a group of humans have a social disadvantage against other dominant powerful groups and this has a major effect on society. Uganda, South Africa, has been a home to the Karamojong tribe for quite some years. The Karamojong has a confident name but they take on with misdemeanor actions and offenses and there may be various solutions that can possibly help (Broken). In Uganda the Karamojong tribe has been a poor, struggling group that has been known for violence and have been suffering from disadvantage and discrimination.

A marginalized group is a group that’s confined to the lower or peripheral edge of the society. Such a group is denied involvement in mainstream economic, political, cultural and social activities. Marginalization or social exclusion deprives a group of its rightful share of reach to productive resources and ways to utilize its maximum potential for prosperity. It’s directed at groups who are seen to differ from perceived norms.

According to Barnes (2005), social exclusion is defined as the condition by which individuals in a given society are disadvantaged than others depending on who they are. The various reasons to why some individuals are disadvantaged than others include race, ethnicity, where they live or migrant status, sexual orientation, descent, caste, age, gender, HIV status, disability (Barnes, 2005). Discrimination takes place in public institutions, for instance, in health and educational services and social institutions such as the household. Particular groups experience poverty due to social exclusion and this reduces the rate at which poverty is declines in a given society as a whole. Social exclusion can result in social conflict