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| Similarities between the processes and experiences of urbanization for Blacks, Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans |
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-Each started from the bottom
-They were all looked at as being minorities to whites.
-They all began by living together in enclaves
-We're discriminated against |
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| Differences between the processes and experiences of urbanization for Blacks, Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans |
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-Majority lumps Latinos together.
-Asians: Local and global events.
-N.Americans:less visible
-Blacks: Werent immigrants, brought to America discriminated against |
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| Features and Consequences of deindustrialization on the US economy |
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Features:
Plants moving out of the inner city
Increase in technology; need less workers
Cheaper to make products outside of cities
Process of globalization
Consequences:
People lost jobs because the manufacturing jobs relocated. If there were some still there, they were low paying.
They weren't skilled enough for other jobs. |
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| Contrast culturalist and strucluralist approach |
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Culturalist- Stems from structural; people have adapted to the way they are now living (not a good lifestyle) and don't value education.
Structuralist- Deindustrialization and discrimination play a part; mis-match between skills and jobs. |
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| Processes and consequences of white flight and black flight from inner cities |
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Due to structural changes (industrial)
Whites were fleeing inner cities into the suburbs and the blacks were moving into the inner.
-This concentrated poverty in those areas. |
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| The policies enacted by the federal government and their effects on urban populations |
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"Urban Renewal"
-Project hope: Sold public housing to poor families.
-Urban Homesteading: Brung together housing needs and help people move into the working/middle class ways of life. |
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| Wilson- focuses on economic restricting, racial segregation, discrimination in housing and employment. |
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| Deindustrialization of inner cities |
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| Between 1960s and 1970s manufacturing jobs left the inner cities and moved into suburban areas |
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Idea that you get certain benefits by social structures;
-Does it benefit you?
-If connected to non educated, poor people it wont be of value to you.
-Lack of social connections can reproduce poverty (no outside access from the community) |
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| Ecological systems theory |
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| Go together with social organization and dis social organization; they looked at neighborhood outcome. |
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| Inability for a community to see value and get together. Less able to maintain social control. |
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| people were moving out to the outside circles while immigrants were moving in. |
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| Not really social organization; a different form of organization to make cooperation and coordination happen compared to other theorist. |
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Heavy on neighborhoods approach.
How it effects people without power |
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| what is it about poverty that does this and that to communities. |
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| shaped how city looked; will take blacks out and make downtown pretty. |
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all resources are influenced on where you live; lower resources in poorer areas.
schools, housing and exposure to pollution etc.--Health problems |
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| Social capital and concentrated poverty |
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| Those living in extreme concentrated poverty are socially isolated. |
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| people with an education = dual income households |
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| The people at the bottom don't have a say; Different communities want different things. |
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| political people care about everyone |
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| Just a few people calling the shots |
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| A way everyone gets together; government sets out areas in zones |
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| The government says hands off and don't care |
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| Properties in specific areas |
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| Taking areas of the city and re-making it; removed communities that were in the run-down parts |
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| They had to be Working or middle class communities not to be removed |
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| No mix of income= filled with poor people |
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Significant issues:
Concentrated poverty
High vacancy rates
Poor maintenance
Socially isolated
High crime
Keeping people on top of one another |
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| Like section 8: how to deal with people who cant afford rent |
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| designated to concrete existing federal government stimulus programs |
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| Attempts to rebuild urban environments away from deteriorating ones |
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| Enterprise and employment zones |
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Match with newly created jobs into the central city
Attempted to connect social services to provisions within these zones |
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| Focuses on building out cities in sustainable ways |
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