Mary Pattillo's Model Of Social Organization

Mary Pattillo guides attention towards African American middle class neighborhoods that suffer from high internal poverty rates as well as they are closer to high poverty and high crime areas than white middle class neighborhoods. Pattillo argues about social organization theory and the systemic model, while explaining how these networks easily control dense social networks which have positive and negative outcomes when it comes to social control by specific mediating action. Her article travels threw two co-exist as well as to what residents refer to as a quiet neighborhood. Patitillo claims that the elements shown to affect neighborhood social organization, residential stability, and the strong informal ties that stability encourages have not been enough to unpack and provide as to why/how they benefit or destroy social organization. In Groveland, stability, and dense networks do not keep criminal …show more content…
The CNS studied racial discourse, culture, and social organization in four neighborhoods with diverse ethnicities. Interviews were conducted in the neighborhood asking individuals to take surveys asking them a couple of questions about the neighborhood. Since many residents did leave their own homes, the study was conducted on a rich cross section of Groveland residents. During the study newspapers, photographs, neighborhood flyers, etc. were also collected to support the data. Pattillo’s article mentions, that Groveland’s top gang leader lives there which does not differentiate from other neighborhoods due to the integration of licit/ illicit networks. What is important about Groveland is that middle class neighborhood are individuals who illicit networks are connected, the unique strategy that organizes a variety of neighborhoods that are close to high crimes, whom form illicit