Harlem Children's Zone Analysis
The Harlem Children’s Zone is changing the cycle of generational poverty and helping children beat the odds. It is one of the most ambitious social experiments in our time according to The New York Times. The project uses a holistic approach to rebuilding the community by keeping the children on track from birth through college and to the job market.
(Symbolic Interactionist - A basic premise is that a condition must be defined or recognized as a social problem for it to be a social problem.)
Mr. Canada saw a social problem and decided to do something about it. The first thing he did was defined a problem, that was poor kids in Harlem were grades behind suburb kids and would be more likely to stay in the same lower social class that they
(Symbolic Interactionist - A basic premise is that a condition must be defined or recognized as a social problem for it to be a social problem.)
Mr. Canada saw a social problem and decided to do something about it. The first thing he did was defined a problem, that was poor kids in Harlem were grades behind suburb kids and would be more likely to stay in the same lower social class that they