Assignments should reflect the course material found in the course manual and textbooks. Students are welcomed to bring in their own research but must cite that material using APA. Students should note that assignment three is made up of two separate essays. And each essay should be around 1200 words.

The assignment is valued at 50% of your total grade.
Students are required to answer two of the following four questions.
Students are required to answer at least one question from Part One; however they may answer both questions from Part One if they wish. If students choose to complete only one question from Part One then they are required to complete one question from Part Two. So students have the following options: Answer questions one and two, one and three, one and four, two and three, or two and four.

Part One
1) In his book In Search of Respect Phillippe Bourgois examines the life of Puerto Rican immigrants living in East Harlem. Outline the history that brought these people to “El Barrio”, and discuss why their lack of cultural capital and structural racism makes it difficult to melt into the wider social milieu of American society.

2) In his book The Broken Fountain Belmonte looks at social life in inner city Naples. Here he finds a social group which is centred on a number of opposing relationships. Discuss these relationships and how they help people cope with their extreme levels of poverty.

Part Two
3) Discuss the social structure, social relationships, and social activities of boarders living in illegally operated boarding houses in St. John’s. Are boarders part of a homogeneous or heterogeneous community/society?

4) Discuss the failure of modern architecture and its effects on people in both the western and third world societies.