Gentrification: A Critical Ethnographic Study
by Trejo, Miguel H., Ed.D., FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY, 2012, 167 pages; 3503965

Abstract:

This critical Ethnography piece is the bases for social revolution which came about throughout my participation within humanitarian causes, movements, and social change restructuring of various inner city schools.

Gentrification and social marginalization are quite engraved in global mainstream societies. Theories are deeply interwoven within such fabrics which ultimately dictate what social etiquette derive from institutions.

Schools being chief social institution are most deeply affected at the early stages of development in American society. A synthesis of the manner various degrees of proposition such as Sb180 and No Child Left Behind (NCLB) policies correlate with social values have greatly restrict teachers' ability to genuinely restructure school systems that have been failing for decades now. By the same token; Social ecological condition have continued to deteriorate as a result of government participation in the dismantling of grassroots movements via policies and regulation practices that do not favor the poor.

The enormously ignored populations consisting of the poorest of the poor continuing living socially stratified by a legacy of social classification. Prime impacted people being people of color and low-income White populations of people. Native Americans and homeless people represent the most forgotten of people in regard to fair government distribution of resources.

With all that stated: it must be clear that schools represent statistical economic access and social shifts due to enormous wealth gaps that exist. The core grassroots of organizations represent the bridging out of resources to those population with the most need. The incorporating that mass marketing subjects an organization(s) into puts at stake the very essence of genuine grassroots movements. That particular aspect of praxis was most apparently essential by means of a critical ethnographic approach for research gathering.

 
AdviserLee Mahon
SchoolFIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY
SourceDAI/A 73-08(E), p. , May 2012
Source TypeDissertation
SubjectsSociology of education; Social work; Education policy; Hispanic American studies
Publication Number3503965
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