Discredited Neightborhoods
In this essay I'm going to critically analyze Warr's argument on "Discredited Neighborhoods" and then use her findings, to find similarities and differences to discredited neighborhoods in Jakarta, Indonesia. Using my own first hand point of view, and several sociological journals that focus on poverty and social capital in Indonesia and Australia, I'm going to compare the social economic differences between the two suburbs in Geelong, and a Kampung in South Jakarta.
In the article "Social Networks in a Discredited Neighborhood" Deborah J. Warr. Warr discusses the social difficulties, and behavior of people living in discredited neighborhoods in a town off Melbourne called Geelong. Warr compares two different neighborhoods, Corio, and Norlane, both known to have high unemployment ratings as well as a large amount of government housing. Warr, puts across a strong argument by the method she uses. By picking the two different suburbs she can get more of a diversity which further strengthens her argument. She further uses testimonials of people living in the neighborhoods to further strengthen her study by getting first hand information. Another way Warr is able to strengthen her argument is the use of referencing to many other studies of this subject, in doing that she gets more then one educated opinion rather then just hers. I believe one area that can still be improved on is the diversity of the study. It would have been a much stronger argument if the study was done across several different towns/cities. By doing that her argument would be a lot stronger because of the diversity of people that would have participated in the study.
A main point put across by Warr is that individuals and or families that live in discredited neighborhoods tend to try and limit social activities and interactions with people outside of there community. She explains they don't do this out of ignorance, rather to stay away from the stereotype that comes with living in...
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