Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Chapter 20: Communities and Urbanization

2. Imagine that you have been asked to study the issue of segregation in the largest city in your state. How might you draw on surveys, observation research, experiments, and existing sources to study this issue?

. Observe different schools in different areas
. For example, compare a school in Avon to a school in Hartford to see how the atmosphere is in the classrooms.

. Observe one school to see the kind of cliques or groups that are there
. Observe the kids at a diverse school and see which kids hang out with you

. Do surveys on how many minorities hang out with each other to the minorities that hang out with white people
. At MLC, compare the amount of minorities that hang out with white people to the ones that don’t.

. The existing sources

. http://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/aboutus.php

The mission of the Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles is to help renew the civil rights movement by bridging the worlds of ideas and action, to be a preeminent source of intellectual capital within that movement, and to deepen the understanding of the issues that must be resolved to achieve racial and ethnic equity as society moves through the great transformation of the 21st century. We believe that either the country will learn to deal effectively with the richness of its astonishing diversity or it will lose pace in a globalizing world and decline and divide. Focused research and the best ideas of scholars and leaders from all parts of the country can make a decisive contribution to a renewal of the promise of the civil rights movement.

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