CHLS 421 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Peer Pressure, Masculinity, Racialization
8 Mar 2018
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Living conditions of aliso gardens: isolated from main stream society, old, Group 1: peer pressure, multiple marginality (it"s a theory not a factor, lack of employment opportunities, runs in the family, access to relevant - education. Group 2: material access, status, sense of family/identity, safety, peer pressure. Group 3: family type outlined by vigil underclass, unconventional, etc, characteristic of public housing, protection, socioeconomic easy job prospect, sense of identity. Group 4: support: family and belonging, status: recognition and identity, safety and protection, masculinity, material access. Group 5: poverty-economic, family generational, protection, peer pressure, racial segregation. Three housing projects: (largest in los angeles) (at least six gangs: aliso village: north side, pico/aliso, aliso gardens. The cop v. social scientist perspective: klein book. Is there an ideological influence? (yes) (it is very difficult to be objective) Didn"t look at the gang as deviant or evil . Agency v. structure: goal to show success but there needs to be failure to work.
