Recently, I was asked to look up popular media sources relating to the topic that I'm interested in which was poverty. After carefully reading each article and analyzing the articles, I began to realize that popular media likes to stir away from the real problem that is being presented to them, and its not truthful.
In one of the articles, " Organizing the Uprising: The Age of Poverty and Inequality" was the only one that had a sociological perspective being discussed in the article. Even though, the article had different authors share their experience and their research from the minorities groups from all over the world, it didn't show a sign of biasness, but instead show the reasoning of why people are suffering from poverty and the reason why poverty will continue to rise. But the other articles was talking about other things that didn't add up to the main issue at hand and the thought that came to my head was why? Why write a fantastic title only to not talk about the topic?
For example, one of the articles "What city bus systems can tell us about race, poverty and us" sounds like a excellent title and a great article, but as you start reading it, you realize that the idea of poverty is not even being mentioned. "Lessons like how to overcome her fears to walk past two giant Rottweilers, but also why one block of the avenue can be teeming with businesses while the next block is blighted and vacant"(Hui, 2017) Based on that quote, one would not see how and where poverty fits in that equation. However, this article could be a strong article if the author add included information from the 1950's about blacks having to take the transit system because they couldn't afford to have a car. Something around those areas would have show the seriousness of poverty, but having a title but not actually talking about that topic is not good for the readers and especially community members.
Personally, if the articles that we read show a sociological perspective, the articles would be taken more serious and it would be beneficial to community organizations and officials. Below are the articles that I have mentioned about in this blog.
Let me know your thoughts on the articles. Do you think that there was sociological perspectives in any of the articles? Did you learn anything about poverty while reading these articles? If the answer is no, then we have to do better trying to let others see the sociological perspective of things......
Peace
- Anikka :)
References
McCarthy, Lloyd. 2017. "Organizing the Uprising: The Age of Poverty and Inequality". Retrieved September 29, 2017
(https://dissidentvoice.org/2017/09/organizing-the-uprising-the-age-of-poverty-and-inequality/)
Hui, Mary. 2017. "What city bus systems can tell us about race, poverty and us". Retrieved September 29 , 2017
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/what-city-bus-systems-can-tell-us-about-race-poverty-and-who-we-are/2017/09/07/6531d26a-9260-11e7-8754-d478688d23b4_story.html?utm_term=.620c62b5f5ee)
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