SOC 368 Chapter : Code of the Street Notes.docx
8 Apr 2014
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Du bois published the philadelphia negro: connection between drugs and violence, oppositional/outlaw culture, deep and debilitating social pathologies in the black community that persist today, submerged 10th/ underclass, growth and transformation of underclass result of deindustrialization and growth of global economy > steady loss of unskilled and semiskilled manufacturing jobs that used to sustain urban working class. 1: dangers to those living nearby, decent people seduced into ways of the street severe racial discrimination (in more practical form) lacking trust in mainstream institutions many turn to hustling in the underground economy, middle class blacks must defend themselves faith in criminal justice system erodes > social behavior in public organized around the code of the streets drug trade offers a viable way to get by or enhance wealth drug trade employs violence as basis for social control > contributes to violence in inner city neighborhoods difficult to distinguish dealer from law abiding teenager.
