Tommy Pham
10/23/16
Summary of The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City In The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City by Loïc Wacquant and William Wilson, the two authors explore an “interrelated set of phenomena” that relates to social-structural and the issue of hyperghettoization due to the dramatic growth in joblessness and economic exclusion associated with the spatial and industrial restructuring of capitalism. The article is divided into subsections that specifically focus on social-structural, economical, and social capital aspects that categorizes citizens in the Chicago’s ghetto neighborhood as “underclass”. The article starts with describing the deindustrialization of the neighborhood and then moves …show more content…
The article takes a different perspective by drawing attention to specific features of the proximate social structure and comparing the poverty and low-poverty area. This argument is framed based on the historical background of deindustrialization, leaving many citizens jobless and shifted the social structure of the community. The ghetto is a product of American capitalism, de-industrialization, and a lack of jobs. The census tracts with a population at least 49 percent of which comprises poor people compared to 24-27 percent between 1970 and 1980 (10). In the cost of living in the ghetto, the section highlights statistical relationship between education and unemployment between low-poverty areas. In the area, 20 to 80 percent of the population live between the below poverty line. The class gender and welfare describes how the neighborhood influence likelihood to be on welfare. The section is connected to the economic and financial aspects where they compare income and financial assets of low poverty and extreme poverty area. In the last section, social capital and poverty connection makes a relation between a subject’s social connection and how poverty is relatable to socially isolating communities. This leaves many people in the ghetto without close associates or …show more content…
In secondary evidence, there is some dialogue that can be connect to the data. The authors use graphs that compare social-structural and economical status of those living in low and extreme poverty areas. Many of the graphs have characteristics where they describe social differences and the data shows significant differences in the low and extreme poverty areas. Many of the graphs conclude the subjects in extreme poverty areas are at disadvantage due to the patterns of social exclusions placed upon them and poverty concentration that limited their opportunities. The scope of the evidence presented in the article focus on the bigger level rather than an individual level. This makes the evidence more organized and easily categorized as a population that can be grouped to represent a certain group of people. As for their footnotes, the authors cite other scholarships of in the same subject of poverty and the social structure of the inner city. The authors often cite their own personal work to make arguments for the piece. The footnotes are often provide relevant information that have cited in the same study of the Chicago’s inner
10/23/16
Summary of The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City In The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City by Loïc Wacquant and William Wilson, the two authors explore an “interrelated set of phenomena” that relates to social-structural and the issue of hyperghettoization due to the dramatic growth in joblessness and economic exclusion associated with the spatial and industrial restructuring of capitalism. The article is divided into subsections that specifically focus on social-structural, economical, and social capital aspects that categorizes citizens in the Chicago’s ghetto neighborhood as “underclass”. The article starts with describing the deindustrialization of the neighborhood and then moves …show more content…
The article takes a different perspective by drawing attention to specific features of the proximate social structure and comparing the poverty and low-poverty area. This argument is framed based on the historical background of deindustrialization, leaving many citizens jobless and shifted the social structure of the community. The ghetto is a product of American capitalism, de-industrialization, and a lack of jobs. The census tracts with a population at least 49 percent of which comprises poor people compared to 24-27 percent between 1970 and 1980 (10). In the cost of living in the ghetto, the section highlights statistical relationship between education and unemployment between low-poverty areas. In the area, 20 to 80 percent of the population live between the below poverty line. The class gender and welfare describes how the neighborhood influence likelihood to be on welfare. The section is connected to the economic and financial aspects where they compare income and financial assets of low poverty and extreme poverty area. In the last section, social capital and poverty connection makes a relation between a subject’s social connection and how poverty is relatable to socially isolating communities. This leaves many people in the ghetto without close associates or …show more content…
In secondary evidence, there is some dialogue that can be connect to the data. The authors use graphs that compare social-structural and economical status of those living in low and extreme poverty areas. Many of the graphs have characteristics where they describe social differences and the data shows significant differences in the low and extreme poverty areas. Many of the graphs conclude the subjects in extreme poverty areas are at disadvantage due to the patterns of social exclusions placed upon them and poverty concentration that limited their opportunities. The scope of the evidence presented in the article focus on the bigger level rather than an individual level. This makes the evidence more organized and easily categorized as a population that can be grouped to represent a certain group of people. As for their footnotes, the authors cite other scholarships of in the same subject of poverty and the social structure of the inner city. The authors often cite their own personal work to make arguments for the piece. The footnotes are often provide relevant information that have cited in the same study of the Chicago’s inner