Neighbourhood

As my community profile, I will be doing an ethnographic study of downtown Cincinnati. The agency that I am doing my internship is at Hamilton County Job and Family Services. The agency is based in the heart of Downtown Cincinnati. I thought this would be a good community to research demographics and compositions because, it’s the neighborhood that the agency workers are in the most. What is a community? A community is an area where a group people lives in the same place. This is could be a…

Community, the place where we are supposed to belong, be accepted, and grow in. A community is something built on bonds, different types of bonds, that are important in our lives. We are living in a time where working alone is not profitable. We must work together. I love to help personally. I live far from Carlos Fuentes so I don't get much chances to help out in this community. However, i try my best to help mine, or to help others. I go to church and there we hold many events where i love to…

For years, I have wondered why my neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York known as Brownsville is so dysfunctional as compared to my past neighborhoods. After doing my research, I think I found an answer that can be supported through the lens of Shaw and McKay's Social Disorganization Theory. Developed by the Chicago school, the theory links crime rates within a neighborhood environmental characteristics. "Social disorganization is the consequence of a community's inability to realize common values…

Good morning class, What do you think defines community? Community is an important part of belonging and is formed through interactions between group, place and the individual. I believe that the exploration of Radu Mihaileanu’s film “Live and Become” has enabled us to understand the importance of group perspective towards outsiders in belonging. Judith Wright’s 1920 poem “Remittance Man” highlights the interaction between individual and place, whilst discussing the need for change in some…

They believed that the population shifts influenced crime because of newcomers invading the areas of those who have already been there, dominance was also an issue of establishes who was who and who could do was in neighborhoods, and they used the term succession to define the social organization of an area, with members usually of one typical ethnicity moved into another’s neighborhood. They saw that the crime rates would rise and rise until the invading group eventually became the majority,…

Independence Is a very important value in life and sometimes isn 't appreciated as much as it should be. Most people don 't realize that one day in your life you are going to be forced to be independent and on your own. Many people you rely on aren 't going to always be there for you and parents unfortunately don 't live forever. It is the ideal dream to one day branch off and be on your own, instead of being dependent on someone else. Growing and going to college or starting your own family is…

It was the reasonable neighborhood to push out because it was a poor neighborhood made up of people of color, who didn’t know how to defend themselves. It’s difficult to bring yourself to challenge those forces, when the forces money, power, and status because the imbalance of power is too great to defend the little that one may have. When you own a home, such as those who live in The Hill, you find the willpower to try to fight for the few things you can call your own. Neighborhoods like The…

Temple University is located in the center of an urban community called North Philadelphia. The North Philadelphia community is mostly filled with residents and students who attend Temple University. In these neighborhoods, it is noticeable that they are filled with either abandoned houses, empty lots, or even mini markets and Chinese stores. Many of these people that have been living in North Philadelphia, have been living in the same home for years and noticed quite a few changes in the…

Society has been obsessed with the proclamation that “bigger is better” since the industrial revolution. Ever since then, humanity has been pushing its limits as to how high their skyscrapers can be built and obsessed with what the “next big thing” will be. A message of “go big or go home” has been perpetuated throughout the ages; yet, the assumption that there is a correlation between size and prosperity is an idea that urbanized culture has trained citizens to believe. Large urban areas tend…

Poverty in the African American Urban Community: Theories, Factors and Contributions A renewed allegiance to community upliftment, particularly in the interest of promoting adequate living conditions for those residing in poor urban communities, is essential in the development of a thriving lower class community. Social change within the African American Community is not singularly defined by upward economic mobility, nor can it be characterized by the individual achievements of those who have…