SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Favela, Jacob Riis, Jacob Lawrence
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Sociology 1 november 15 lecture 12. The metropolis still from fritz lang"s 1927 film: the city is a very important part of the story for sociologists. Charles booth"s poverty map: people work for very, very long hours for very little pay if any, many people lived in homes that looked like factories, precursors to million dollar maps. Charles dickens, our mutual friend: focused on wealth and poverty in industrial, making a living from garbage and dust. Disconnection from our self to social rules. George simmel: the stranger/money: the city contained strangers and money. Has a density because of its strangers and anonymity. Going and coming: ellis island: helped by invention of the railroad, from europe and rural parts of northern america, developments made people move. Chicago: social disorganization: used local environments to study urban poverty and urban culture, the modern urban life seemed to bring social disorganization. Used the city as a laboratory: migration was a concern for the sociologists.
