SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Relative Deprivation, Social Class, Neighborhood Watch

• School: Towson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 101
• Professor: Carol Caronna

Document Summary

Grassroots activism: trying to block hazardous sites from being built in their neighborhood (succeeded, relative deprivation. Environmental hazards intentionally being placed in poor/low-educated/older neighborhoods by the state of california. Idea: unfairness (to children, and to those because they pay taxes and live there: structural strains. West la v. east la: west. Share community focus: they volunteer at school, church, neighborhood associations. Thursday, may 5, 2016: they care about community and people around them, resources. They have pre-existing neighborhood organizations: neighborhood watch. Catholic priests: to not be afraid of being on tv or of having an opinion. Common goal: to protect their kids, social structure. Mothers" need to organized wouldn"t be affected if california wasn"t treating them unfairly: outcome. Political activism and political power (didn"t start out with) Broke stereotypes: not supposed people to have resources/power. Look for similarity to another article in unit 3 to compare to: race caught in public eye, saints + roughnecks.