The culture of poverty

thesis: Oscar Lewis' article is a description of the "Culture of Poverty"

Lewis tries to explain the different aspects of poverty he tells us that poverty is seen as evil and good. lewis also tells us that poverty is passed down from generation to generation, mostly because people who belong to the poverty class are illiterate, have a low level of education and have trust issues.

i believe that judith goode that is correct on going against Lewis , she has evidence that majority of the people that claim welfare and housing are not in need to extra help.  

In motion

Derek pardue claims that social difference and power is space, in the city of Sao Paulo Brazil. One method Derek uses to prove this opinion is by investigating movement around the city that is transportation. He starts of by informing us that the city was late on its formation; skyscraper, public transportations and roads didn’t form until the twentieth century. With the formation of the city the term ‘’segregation’’ came along; wealth people lived in one area and the poor on one side called periferia ; which means slum. Robson a man interview by Derek claims that the public transportation system is meant to be used by the poor. The trains are like sardine cans, and the buses contain people who smell and it feels sticky inside. Robson states that the bus he takes always passes by wealthy communities and on the street he sees luxurious cars and it reminds him that he cant afford that and the space where he comes from.   

The edge and the center gated communites and discourse of urban fear

Thesis: crime levels in urban communities have forced people to move in to communities with walls

Summary:

Seth M. low informs us about isolated communities that fear the world outside their walls. These small communities have their own government and laws. Majority of these people living in these communities have moved from cities, because of their experience with crime; however, I believe that people who isolate themselves from others can affect themselves even more. Seth found it very hard to interview these people due to the fact that not anyone is allowed into these isolated communities. However, when she got access to peoples that live in these communities they all shared the same answer.

I belief isolated communities can cause the city money and prevent news to these communities.

Urban Danger Life in a neighborhood of strangers

The arthicle by Sally Engle Merry speaks of her experince in Dover square project. she informs us that the people within this area use segregate as a way of life. Sally also speaks of the history of the area and how it became home to the low class people. Majority of the people Sally interviewed in the projects claimed that the youth of the nieghborhood are trouble makers; therfore, a woman that lives in the projects has to leaves her house to the laundromate very early . in some interviews people claimed that all black people are dangerous bringinga act of discrimination a upon the neighborhood.

Urbanism as a wasy of life

The article Louis Wirth wrote made me realize that the world hasn’t changed since he wrote his article on July 1938. In this article he writes about how cities affect people’s actions, attitudes and personalities. In modern days people are still affected by cities. Also in his article wirth writes about how more rural countries are becoming cities, because these countries are experiencing late industrialization, 73 years later countries are still experiencing industrialization. Nowadays we have countries that are forming into cities; one good example is Ecuador. Over the past century small villages; like Cuenca have formed into cities. I wonder what Louis Wirth would say if he still was alive, and to know that term urbanism has not changed at all.   

Student fieldworkers in village and city

In the article student fieldworkers in village and city by George Gmelch and Sharon Bohn Gmelch, informs us about the difference between students studying in rural villages and urban cities and their experience. According to the article universities sent undergraduate students to field training programs to have some sort of knowledge and experience on how anthropologist work. In the 1980s and 1990s students were sent to Ireland and Barbados; however, as technology improved at the start of the new century people started to change in their everyday lives. For example people that lived in an isolated rural environment where introduced to technology by the anthropologist whom entered their lives in order to study them. With the help of technology, and a better view to the outside world these peoples moved to an urban environment to experience a new life. Therefore, anthropologist decided to study people that lived in urban cities and their interviews seemed to be more formal.  Although approaching people on the street is not essay, but in trying so, gave anthropologist more information and different ethnicities.  In small villages anthropologist studied one ethnicity and roomer’s commons were said about them. I  belief that it is better for anthropologist study people from urban areas because you always find different people.