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This 6 page paper gives an overview and critique of Elijah Anderson's book, Code of the Street. Quotes cited from text. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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first hand the disparity of the philosophy of welfare and its practical application as it exists today. Andersons book focuses on the real-life situations that those who find themselves on
welfare must endure and overcome just to survive. Survival. It is wired in to the most basic of drives in the human species. Given this, then, it makes perfect sense
that people who are facing hunger and homelessness would turn to any method available to avoid death. To do otherwise would be to invite disaster. So, in some of the
roughest and poorest neighborhoods in Philadelphia, Elijah Anderson conducted personal interviews with some of the poorest, angriest, and despondent recipients of welfares dollars. What he found was that in many
of the neighborhoods, which were predominantly black, anyone who was doing well in the neighborhood worked multiple jobs or simply turned to criminal activity to supplement their incomes.
Anderson comes to the conclusion that many who analyze Welfare have also concluded. Welfare breeds dependence on the system, rather than easing the impoverished back into the mainstream of society.
Within these neighborhoods he found that there were two disparate attitudes which prevailed. The first group were those who believed if they only worked harder and got a better education
that they would make it. The second group had lost all hope and were teaching their children how to make it in the environment in which they existed. The
decent family and the street family in a real sense represent two poles of value orientation, two contrasting conceptual categories. The labeling is often a the result of a social
contest among individuals and families of neighborhood(Anderson 35). The prevailing attitude which both groups shared, Anderson states, is that of taking care of oneself and ones family.
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