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    Present at least two different sociological approaches to social inequality and discuss these approaches with reference to a concrete problem area of contemporary relevance. Ghettos are preventing social mobility‚ and maintaining inequality in the society. Social inequality is one of the biggest struggles today and have always been. It is something that every great mind has tried to solve‚ without any great success. Social inequality is when resources in a society is unevenly distributed

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    The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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    In the eyes of the Jewish‚ ghettos were the worst experience of the Holocaust‚ before all of the Jews went to the death camps. Making the Warsaw Ghetto a significant symbol of the Holocaust. Thousands of people were stuffed into tight communities and were exposed to diseases‚ starvation‚ and deportation. Children had to fend for themselves because their parents were powerless and had to stand by watch. Families in the ghettos also watched their friends and close relatives slowly disappear. To attempt

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    Ghetto In The 19th Century

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    The American Ghetto To an extent Ghetto’s have always existed within the United States. Beginning with the Five Points Area of New York City in the late 18th century every city in the United States has had neighborhoods where the poor‚ the recent immigrant‚ the desperate‚ and the criminal have made their homes. However; it was only in the late 19th century that the systematic poverty in the ghetto and related problems such as‚ alcohol and drug abuse‚ child abuse and neglect‚ spousal abuse‚ and crime

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    Rob Hill Professor Terry Thuemling WP121G 5 November 2004 Behind the Walls of the Ghetto Commenting on the famed Los Angeles ghetto in which he grew up‚ gangster rapper Ice Cube asserts‚ "If you ain ’t never been to the ghetto‚ don ’t ever come to the ghetto" (Cube‚ Ghetto Vet). But why are American ghettos filled with so much violence‚ drugs‚ and inopportunity? In John Singleton ’s powerful drama Boyz N the Hood the harsh reality of youths growing up in South Central Los Angeles‚ a place

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    The only time a problem in the ghetto gets addressed is when a cop murders a black male. Which by the way “every 28 hours a African American is killed by a security officer” according to alternet.com. Police brutality is a very big problem in ghettos all around the world. “Although black men make up only 6% of the U.S. population‚ they account for for 40% of the unarmed men shot to death by police this year” according to WashingtonPost.com.The officer that committed the murder usually gets just a

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    Ghettos are often associated with crime‚ poverty‚ and cruelty‚ but it doesn’t have to be. The real definition is a minority living in an area such as Chinatown‚ Manhattan. But‚ with our prejudice opinions‚ we have towards the inhabitants and the area we create a new definition. Instead‚ we should reform our personal definition of a ghetto and not let our behaviors or actions affect the inhabitants. “Ghetto” just means a minority inhabiting a small area‚ but the way people react to the term proves

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    African American Ghettos

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    This investigation will be evaluating the origins of the ghetto and how the ghetto itself has helped to enforce racism within America. The rise of the ghetto has been associated predominantly within the black community‚ with origins from the late 1920’s. Evaluating the reasons for neighborhood segregation in the 1920’s is important because it shows an increased hostility towards blacks from whites‚ which further escalates at the beginning of the 1940’s. Looking at the time from the 1910-1920’s

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    In chapter eight‚ “The Future of the Ghetto” in American Apartheid‚ Nancy Denton and Douglas Massey argue that residential segregation is a threat to society’s well-being because of its social‚ political‚ and economic consequences. As a result‚ the authors call for structural change and the creation of regulations along with the overall understanding that segregation is detrimental to all‚ to sustain a desegregated society. The authors begin by addressing the problems with how race and class are

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    Jewish Ghetto Essay

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    Jewish Ghettos If you where to take a trip back to Germany in 1939-1944 you would expect to see the holocaust‚ you would but there is a more overlooked event. This event was called ghettos‚ these ghettos where basically a neighborhood in a city with a high Jewish population that was turned into a place where the nazis could separate the Jews away form normal society and treated terribly. The Jewish people that where held in these ghettos could have been held in them for weeks or years. The ghettos

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    In the modern time‚ there still exist ghettos and for the racial inequality. The creation of ghettos usually comes resulting from the functioning of stigma and the attempts of constraining and criminalizing the racial group. Even nowadays‚ when the population changes‚ the ghetto still remains a ghetto‚ and they are mostly formed as a result of gang activities and seeking a shield. At the same time‚ there is a range of factors influencing the life in a ghetto. First of all‚ the state has an immense

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