Sociology

Sociology During this semester, we have covered many articles. After reading “The code of the streets”, by Elijah Anderson, I realized what the inner city is really about. Anderson’s views on the code of the streets were strictly about how to survive as far as protecting your self and providing for your self. He breaks it down into two groups and then compares the two groups how society views us African Americans. The two groups were the “decent” and “street’ families. The decent families have an average job, take care of their family and are some what educated. Many of them go to church and play a major part in their children’s schooling. They teach their children no to get involved in violence and they are strict. On the other hand, the street families are the total opposite. They are drug users and they are prone to violence. Anderson shows that some of the reasons for a lot of these problems originate from their environment. If you grow up or live around a drug infested neighborhood, then most likely you will result to drugs. In the community, due to lack about, jobs, families, work, talks, inner, city, adults, violence, job, can’t, being, article, african, wilson, talk, streets, people, lack, harlem, code, working, two, teenagers, street, race, problems, part, lot, life, groups, drug, articles, anderson, americans