pgs 101-118 giray suli

In this chapter written by wirth he talks about urbanism as way if life. He states the difference between urbanism and ruralism.He doesen't give that much attention to how important variations among population are in urban areas.

I will also discuss about the growth of cities and urbanization. Growth of cities  was studied carefully by Wirth. It is impossible to figure out how precisely the world population of 1.8 billion is urban. Wirth  states that the world's population is verty unevenly distributed.

He argues that countries recently industrialized has effected world population. He sais that people should not expect variations between rural and urban types of personality. He also sais that because of social life reflects folk , Large population recruits fron countryside.

I learned that Urban as away of life. Urbanism is identified with physical entity of a city. We talked about the difference between rural and urban. I learned that the world is unevenly distributed and causes problems for populations.

pg.119-130 giray suli

Louis Wirth has been investing the urban way of life. He is talking about life in a neighborhood of strangers. He insists that way of life is characterized by relationship with two strangers. He makes interesting observations.

Wirth argues that social boundaries makes room for crimes. Awareness of danger comes from belief that they live in a world of dangerous strangers. Some people in urban areas live in fear and expect the worst. A city is a place for strangers. Fear of danger causes some people from close ties to social groups such as families,.

Wirth has been studying life in high crime neighborhoods. He found out that in a housing project which he was investing the impact of ethnic groups like black, hispanicsand chinese he found out that in this project of his he discovered that each ethnic group had different perception on living conditions of housing projects.

I find it interesting reading about urban danger. I 've learned about different ethnic groups from housing projects. I found out two incidents from reading this to be interesting. A white man packs his suitcase without anyone noticing as he went into the dark. One more incident is when a chinese woman never return to her home after dark.

I studied about the people of west 47th street in manhattan.They are the people of fountain house. The predominant feature that they all have  in common is that they all struggle with mental illness. 

As a member of fountain house myself I relate to why I come there. Fountain house people come in all sizes and shapes and races.There are blacks , whites and hispanics. They all have one thing in common is that they all come to fountain house to call it their second home and take advantage of the activities.These people all have different diagnosis and are lucky to have a place like that.

Fountain house was founded in 1943. Membership in fountain house is open to anyone with history of mental illness. There is no age limit. All clubhouse services are free of charge to members. Over its long history fountain house served more than 16,000 indivividuals.. More trhen 40 percent of the membership is non-caucasion, 33percent non-hispanic african american, 8 percent latino and 4 percent asian.

I enjoy going to fountain house and meeting people with different races .47th street is a place for opportunities for mentally ill. Without 47th street life would be more hard for the mentally ill.

giray suli

urban anthropology

This article is about net works, neighboehoodsand markets. We will be discussing the capitol of japan which is tokyo.Tokyo is avery populated city.Tokyo has about 25 million people This is 20% of  japan's population.

Tokyo prides itself on being the canter of contempory japanese life.In terms of politics, education arts and fashion it is rich in those areas.Tokyo is considered  a manageble and comfortable  urban environment. Tokyo is  also rich in social life Theodore was researching a particular neighborhood they were called Miyaneta-che. He also researched the marketplace of tokyo. He found out how rich tokyo's marketplace is.

I was very interested in reading this article.I learned alot about tokyo.I learned about the marketplace and networks of tokyo.I would want to resarch tokyo myself.

first journal entry

This article is about anthropological fieldwork in cities.Anthropologists are exploring problems and advantages encountered in doing urban research.Robert Kemper and George Foster show the living conditions of minorities in rural areas.These people include peasants and tribes.

Anthropologists believethat the most complete information on how people live comes from direct participation in gathering information.Anthropologists are new to the study of urban resaarch.Anthropologists believed that the best and accurate data comes from people who like them.In growing numbers American anthropologists traveled to latin america, europe,asia and africastudying tribal peoples, but most chose to work in small rural communitiesin developing nations.Anthropologists researchinr people in urban areas learned about the sufferings of the people there.

I've learned how interested Anthropologists are in urban research and they are very dedicated.I am very interested in this article. I would like to interview people in urban areas my self. I've learned about the living conditions of people in urban areas and found it interesting.

I understand that anthropologists always view urban populations from rural point of view. They just look upon them as transplanted villagers.Urban anthropologists reflect a rural bias. Most best data comes from relationships rural field workers have cherished.