SOC 369 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: African-American Culture, Male Unemployment, Blue-Collar Worker

• School: Princeton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 369
• Professor: Timothy Nelson

Document Summary

Characterized the negro family (increasingly headed by a single mother) as part of a tangle of pathology endemic to lower-class african american culture and the key barrier to social mobility. Chicago"s violent crime rate began to rise in the late 1960s and continued through the 1970s. In 1974, chicago"s crime rate was still lower than detroit, In 1960, 20% of black children lived in single-parent families. Family structure is highly correlated to poverty. Cities were losing population, including middle-income african. Some urban neighborhoods becoming a repository of the black poor. Result: extreme poverty neighborhoods (over 40% poor) and social isolation1. A decline of unskilled and semi-skilled blue collar jobs in the inner city.