Analysis Of Code Of The Street

The text Code of the Street was very intriguing and I appreciated that it was in the Seeing ourselves text. Prior to reading it in the textbook I was about halfway through reading the whole book, which was required for another class. There are many problems outlined in this books from drug use within the community to the industrial downfall within Philadelphia leaving the area of Germantown jobless. The opportunity simply isn 't present for these people once the factories and lower level minimum skilled jobs left the area, putting many people into unemployment. I believe there are three fundamental problems this community is facing and they 're called the three S’s. Social interaction, socialization, and stratification, are all working against

There is often a lot of weight in the way someone interacts with others when it comes to the code of the street. Saying something bad about someone could turn some simple misunderstanding into a much bigger, potentially lethal, problem. Social interaction isn 't always conducted in speech but could be either text or facial expressions. This is explained in the textbook saying, one major aspect of communication is the facial expression of emotion”(Giddens et al 2012:94). The people of Germantown can 't grasp the correct form of this social interaction because of two reasons, weakness and socialization. If they do use the proper form of social interaction many of their peers will view them as weak and no compintant of standing up for that 's theirs. This would allow the other people in the community to walk all over the person trying to better

This is the grouping of people based on wealth or income. Defining people based on their ability to make money could potentially diminish people who live in poverty which is a majority of the community. The media and press look down upon the poor simply because they are misunderstood. They think that these people are lazy and should start to work to make legal money, but it is much more complicated than most might think. Blaming people isn 't a good way to justify why there are problems in an area, but to keep it in perspective if all the industry hasn 't left the area in search of cheaper land or more profit oversees, these people would all have jobs and would not be living this street life. Labeling these people and putting the blame on them just isn 't true. Why blame people with very little power or influence? If the corporate executives had not sought a higher profit margin than none of this would have