POSITIVE FUNCTIONS OF THE UNDERSERVING POOR: USES OF THE UNDERCLASS IN AMERICA

 This reading is really interesting and has a lot of facts and example of inequality. Poor people don't have the same equal life a rich person have because poor people don't have the same help a rich person has and not everyone cares for a poor person because of the class their labeled in. I find this unfair to "Poor People" because that just shows that society does not treat everyone the same. If you are poor you have to go threw a lot of faces in life in order for your life to be a little bit more different (better) but still poor people are being treated as if they were not consider a normal human.

  Poor people or lower class people are consider to have a higher criminal activities then any other class or rich people because they either drop out of school or cant get a job to stay out of trouble. Also immigrants have no choices but to work for what ever they get offered which they would eventually would get paid a lower wage and this is a problem for an American who is looking for work or is illegible to work but cant get a job because illegal immigrants are taking all types of jobs they could get their hands on. Poor people are being used in movies or television as being victims (dead or alive) by being on the news every day or being in the hands of the police. Underclass areas have little protection from police so drug dealers and illegal activities are higher in those areas.

Herbert J. Gans described 13 of the most important functions of the undeserving poor. If poverty was to get worse we would have more crime going on in society. Unskilled workers are needed in jobs because poor people are willing to work for minimum wages. This world could become a little better if we could get rid of poverty and help out poor people or people that need help to change the world a little. We are all humans and we all deserve equal lives. Does not matter if your rich or poor or what ever class you're in or where you came from, we should help each other and make life a little easier for each other rather then let someone suffer or die.

 

" YOU SHALL SURELY OPEN YOUR HANDS TO YOUR BROTHER, TO YOUR NEEDY, AND TO YOU POOR, IN YOUR LAND"

DEVIANCE

Deviance is breaking a social rule (norm), or refusing to follow one. Braking a social rule or not following one could get you in trouble or something worst like going to prison depending on how a human is acting.  Some are legal but still pay the consequences because we don't know our limits sometimes and some rules are illegal but we still do it because we choose to not follow the rules depending on our behavior and therefore we pay the consequences. When Deviant is consider a bad act then it becomes a crime. A crime is an act that lawmakers consider bad enough to warrant formal sanctions. They are also activities that are illegal and we are not aware of them and therefore the chances of getting a penalty are high. Some people today break rules and some follow them. The ones who follow rules are the ones that want to fit in with the other people that follow rules and the ones that dont follow them know the consequences.