SOCIOL 4SS3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Concentrated Poverty, Social Constructionism, Collective Memory
18 Dec 2019
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Sociol 4ss3: audience: this paper will inspire further examination of detroit by social scientists (sociologists, political scientists, et cetera) in attempt to fill the contemporary scholarly hole. As reputations are not universal, and therefore a social construction, this theoretical framework is the most accurate. It is also the most easily transferred: most of the peer reviewed articles reviewed for this paper utilize social constructionism: concepts, neighborhood reputation: reliant on shared understandings of neighborhood crises and capability to survive disorder. Once realized, topographical reputations inform individual perceptions of neighborhood conditions, mobility, emphasize stigmas, circulate and promote spatial inequality, determine political involvement, and affect communal action during crises. Although detroit is much larger than a neighborhood, this concept will be useful in defining how topographical areas obtain reputations: concentrated poverty: areas where the majority of the population receives inadequate income as per the national standard. Where residents are socially, economically, and spatially ostracized, resulting in negative perspectives that extend impoverishment.
