SOC244H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Chinese Canadians, Social Disorganization Theory, Absenteeism
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Chapter 5: impacts of neighborhoods & housing conditions. The very rich congregate in some areas where they are sheltered from the realities of other social classes. In well-to-do areas, a majority of households hold assets in the form of real estate, stocks, bonds, and businesses. The pressure to work, acquire, and consume depletes their energies to the detriment of interpersonal relationships they are teaching values that are materialistic and competitive. Children are put on a treadmill of acquisitiveness and they mea- sure their sense of self by what they have. Families that are started in these disadvantaged areas may remain in them even longer. When social problems are added low-income areas suffer from visible cues indicating the breakdown of social order cues such littering, graffiti, loitering, harassment, crime, and even violence. A heavy concentration of out-of-school and unemployed young males generally precludes effective social control of their activities and those of male children who grow up imitating them.
