Neighborhoods

I grew up in a neighborhood that most of the city didn’t know about. Then, I moved three times and lived in six different houses. Next, I went to a college that most people didn’t know about. Then, something happened that changed my life. Keep reading to see my falls, speed bumps, and victories. I was born on February 28th, 2004 in Cedar Rapids, IA. My little brother was born two years after me, so I was the middle child. I had two older siblings, a mom, and a dad. I first walked when I was…

Walt in his article Culture clashes, and What I Learned from My Grandparents Old Neighborhood, human pride of everything you stand for takes the reins in thinking a foreigner’s beliefs are as great as the ones you share with others in you community. Often the beliefs of a group of community are seen as something “sacred and fundamental”…

accurate examination of an neighborhood first they must interact with the people and participate in the events in the neighborhood they're studying ( Emerson 1995). Ethnographers should always maintain a professional view point on the neighborhood, however one job of an ethnographer is to record how they felt during certain activities that every day people in that neighborhood would do regularly ( Emerson 1995). If a ethnographer came to study my neighborhood they wouldn’t find much. I…

There are four neighborhoods that affect your personal outcome are the social cohesion, social control, spatial mismatch, and environmental hazards. In addition “Where you live profoundly shapes who you are. “I would go as far as to argue that what is truly American is not so much the individual, but neighborhood inequality,” (Robert J.) Some people may think that neighborhoods may not define who you are, but clearly a neighborhood is defining who you are because how your neighborhood…

harmful, but it’s actually helpful for improving the safety in neighborhoods, improving the economy, and improving the conditions of buildings and neighborhoods. Many people believe that gentrification is harmful, but it’s actually helpful for improving the safety in neighborhoods. According to the text “How gentrification may benefit the poor”, “There's often a decline in crime.” When people that have been living in a neighborhood for a long time and see an important change like crime…

but that of urban crime and the sense of place that can be found in a neighborhood. The film dealt with many complex social issues, but underlying all of these issues was the neighborhood the story originated in, and the effect it had on the characters of the film. This film presents a powerful message about sense of place and the importance and occasional negative effects of having an attachment to a particular neighborhood or city. “Mystic River” deals heavily with planning topics with its…

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…

Trayvon Martin shot dead by a neighborhood watch! The neighborhood watch is supposed to be the eyes and ears of the community and report crime as they see it, rather than take matters into their own hands. George Zimmerman, 28, shot and killed Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old black teenager who was walking unarmed through a gated community in Sanford, Florida. Neighborhood watches do not just “watch” the community, instead, they invade ones’ privacy. Neighborhood watches are not beneficial to…

One micro-society that is important to consider is the neighborhood. The term neighborhood has many definitions. From a political aspect, a city may define a neighborhood as the geographical group in a designated political precinct (Data Center Research). The real estate community likely subscribes to “the small group of houses in the immediate vicinity of one’s house” (Data Center Research). The functioning definition of a neighborhood to a sociologist likely includes the following: “an area…

want to see. Stable neighborhoods and stable apartment complexes are likely referred to routine activities theory as a high-crime stressed neighborhood. The triangle explained in the routine activities theory basically covers every area on the map. Regardless of the amount of income within a neighborhood, simple visibility is an effective tactic utilized by police in the stable neighborhood areas (Hover, 2014). The neighborhood watch signs are pertinent in stable neighborhoods as well as…