The makeup of the ethnic population in a society can have a big influence on policing as well. Policing in the U.S. started the same as it did in England. It was an informal social control in which citizens protected one another, and relied on the hue and cry and watch and ward system. These were primarily conducted in smaller areas and grow into formal policing when areas grow into larger towns were a police department was needed and established. Policing in the south was drastically different then the north.
Nichole English 99 Style and structure Just Walk on by 1. Staples mention Norman Podhoretz to show how people taken black people while black men in general on the streets of being in terror. Staples could have made the same points without referring to Podhoretz essay because he had similar experience with the women on the streets and business buildings. 2. I believe Staples using an anecdote at the beginning of the story is very effective because it gives the reader a better recognize the purpose and points of the story.
The housing projects were later demolished in 2007. His book answers the question,” how does it feel to be black and poor?” through observation as a method. Observation as a research method does not require one to just by just asking questions. It demands that an individual should directly submit himself to a daily routine similar to the as those he is carrying his study on. Through this, Venkatesh was able to understand the neighborhood and all kinds of people of lived resided there such as pimps, crack dealers, law enforcement, squatters, activists and organizers.
Rothstein offers a very comprehensive review of a myriad of factors influenced by socioeconomic class and their potential effects on the achievement of students. He addresses genetics (Rothstein, 17), childrearing techniques (19), nutrition (44), alcohol and tobacco use (42), and a variety of health-related physical aspects (37-42). In the article More than just race: being black and poor in the inner city by William J. Wilson, the author analyzes the fragmentation of African-American families and the underlying causes of this breakdown. Wilson begins with discussing the 1965 report by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. He illustrates the rise of the “black perspective” and its effects on the serious social scientific study of urban poverty (Wilson, 99).
SEC/340 – Criminology and the Criminal Justice System Instructor: Week One - Individual Assignment: Criminology and the Sociological Perspectives By: Bruce University July 14, 2008 In this paper the author will discuss what is meant by Sociological Perspectives. A narrative will be given of how Social Perspective helps us to understand the origins of crime and lastly identify ways of reducing crime. The Sociological perspective is a specific way of approaching a phenomenon common in sociology. This involves maintaining objectivity, not by divesting oneself of values, but by critically evaluating and testing ideas, and accepting what may be surprising or even displeasing based on the evidence. The sociological perspective often assumes that “official” explanations are incomplete or self-serving.
Interviews in sociological research are generally used as a means of gaining information regarding people’s way of thinking about certain things, their insights, and ideals. They also attempt to focus greatly on life experiences. There are several types of interviews used in sociological research; structured, semi-structured, and the unstructured interview. In a structured interview, there are predetermined questions asked of the person being interviewed, the respondent is asked the same set of questions in the same order, and there is usually a set choice of possible answers. The semi-structured interview allows some room for closed and open-ended questions giving the interviewer the chance to make some changes in the questioning format and order, and adding questions as they go along depending on the responses received.
In this changing environment, police leaders felt the need to reflect on these problems and their overall image with the public. In their attempts to understand what was going wrong, many studies and experiments were on going. Many police department are pushing more toward community policing and other departments still like using the traditional approach. Both traditional police and community have their disadvantages and advantages. Community policing is the new trend in policing while traditional policing less expensive and takes minimal time to implement compared to community policing.
In order to getting an ethnographic sigh of people’s daily life that how people were affected by street culture, Anderson used direct observation and conducted in-depth interview to gather his data. He met different kinds of people – male and female, black and white, and young and old. Those observation and experience from different people helped Anderson introduce the real inner city life in Philadelphia in more details. Anderson presented the value of a family that has big effect on the youths. He described two different types of family in the inner city which are decent family and street family.
Sociology Versus Anthropology Abstract: Sociology and Anthropology both concentrate on the society and its evolution. Both share different approaches as well as have some similarities as well. This essay will discuss two research methods used in sociology as well as two research methods used in anthropology. The methods will then be compared and contrasted. Describe two research methods used in Sociology: According to the University of North Carolina, Sociology is described as “The study of human social relationships and institutions.” Sociology uses several research methods to study social relationships and institutions including quantitative research and observational research.
In other words, they help us to relate the larger social picture to our own personal lives. A Theory is a set of interrelated concepts that are used to define, explain, and predict how society and its parts are connected to each other. They are concepts and ideas that have been scientifically tested and combined to magnify, enlarge, clarify, and expand the understanding of people, their behaviors, and their societies (Hammond, 2008). Two Main Sociological Theories Theories vary in scope depending on the scale of the issues they are meant to explain. Grand theories, more formally called “Macro-level”, attempt to explain large-scale relationships and answer fundamental questions such as what forms societies and why does societies change.