SOC205H1 Lecture Notes - Africville, Gentrification, System On A Chip
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Where u live determine your future: health conditions, judged base on neighbourhoods social networking (connections), social hierarchy. Move the black settlements out because their housing conditions, slums, substandard, no pavement, yet they pay taxes. Displacement to white substandard housing (going to be demolished) Chicago 2000: remain one of the most segregated city in the states. Gentrification: small groups of white in black communities. In downtown area: few minorities live there established white wealthy neighbourhood. American apartheid (segregation and the making of underclass: massey and denton, black compare to white: why such segregation. Saw the ghettos as a stage in the immigration process. Ghetto enclave suburbs i. e. considered this movement inevitable. In terms of race & urban soc, chicago school socs were sympathetic to the issues, but didn"t understand how deeply rotted the problems. Massey and deton argued that segregation is basic cause of poverty & These create & maintain a black underclass.
