Due: 11:00pm, Thu. Apr. 20 (BMCC follows Mon. schedule)
* No late submission will be accepted. I do not accept submission via email.
** Submit
a PDF file
on Blackboard, no hard copy is required for this assignment.
A photo essay pictures that presents an idea and tells a story.
In this assignment, y is a series of
you’ll be using your
sociological imagination
to discuss
stratification
and
inequality
(chapter 7
in the textbook) in a neighborhood through a series of photos.( TEXTBOOK: You May Ask Yourself by dalton Conley The following
is the step
-by-step
instruction:
1)
Choose a neighborhood that you have some knowledge of
the place. It doesn’t have to be the
neighborhood you reside.
2)
Go to NYC Community Data Portal
, scroll down to select a community district on the map
.
On the next page, click the tab “Population Data” and scroll down to open 3 PDF files:
Demographic Profile, Social Pr
ofil
e, and Economic Profile. From these 3 files, find the
following data:
educational attainment
,
Median household income
,
Mean household income
,
and
race
(major racial groups: White, Black or African American, Asian, Hispanic or
Latino). Make a table to display the data you find.
3)
Walk around the neighborhood you choose, observe
and explore the social world around
you. Take photos and s
elect 5 photos to tell a story about stratification and inequality. One
of the photos must be about food (
e.g. street vendor, grocery store, ethnic food cart
, the food
you eat in that neighborhood etc.)
4)
Write 3
-5 sentences under each photo to describe what intrigues you to take the photo and
your observation and reflection. No matter what software you use to
do the photo essay,
convert your photo essay to a PDF file to submit on Blackboard