Elijah Anderson Code Of The Street Summary

Elijah Anderson did a magnificent job explaining his research on what is consider the code of the street. To develop a better understanding of his study I will describe then apply a list of theories. Thus discuss each theory in relation to Elijah Anderson reading. Mead creates the theory of self where he discusses the development of the self can be affected by the attitude of another towards oneself, to multiple others toward oneself and/or generalized other aka society. One of the things Meads stated was that we are not born with selves but rather that we are born with the potential of developing selves. Therefore making the point that selves emerge through interaction with others. Another one of his explanations of self is the “I” and the “me” where “me: refers to others expectations of us and “I” refers to how a person …show more content…
Connecting to Anderson since self-emerges from social interaction and interactions is what makes up the code of the streets. The street ultimately determines every child’s life chances. Respect being the most important fact where even strangers know not to test others manhood/power. Anderson talks about the area being divided up into two sections the decent and the street. The organization of the community socially and the way they coexist together makes interactions important. Who you interact with particularly for children growing up in the inner city will affect their future and how everything turns out. Differential Association is about how criminal behavior is learned through interactions and communications. This learning process usually occurs within an intimate personal group. The term learning being how to commit crime, direction of motives and attitudes. A person becomes delinquent for much different reason in Anderson research. By living in the inner city the community felt like they couldn’t rely on the police so they