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Analysis Of Elijah Anderson's Code Of The Street

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There comes a time in everyone's life where an individual has to weed out the positive and negative consequences of each action. With that, each of these individuals go about surviving this thing called life in various ways. With the increasing fluctuation of real life situations, these individuals reflect their actions by reacting and abiding by Elijah Anderson's (1999) Code of the Street. In Elijah Anderson's (1999) book Code of the Street, examples of different individuals and their specific situations are addressed and closely analyzed. In this paper, I will elaborate and further explain Anderson's Code of the Street. I will also incorporate two articles which will also further elaborate towards the defining of Anderson's Code of the Street. …show more content…

45). Within the street family, the parents exhibit a strong lack of concern when it comes to discipline and morality. Anderson (1999) mentions that these street families are labeled by disorganization. Members of the street family also tends to “aggressively socialize their children (Anderson, 1999, pg. 45). This means that they put forth effort in promoting violence and earning respect. One can conclude that the street family ideally lacks in the positive necessities of parenting, and thus results in believing and living in the moment, by the code of the …show more content…

The social control or social bond theory is utilized within Anderson's (1999) Code of the Street book when he talks about youth and the mating game. The mating game is characterized by both boy and girl youth, getting pregnant during their adolescent years. Anderson mentions that amongst “teenagers one of the most important factors working against pregnancy is their belief that they have something to lose by becoming parents at an early age” (Anderson, 1999, pg. 148). By this, we can see that individuals involved within the mating game is subjectable to the commitment bond of the social control theory. As mentioned earlier, the commitment bond is defined as a person investing “time, energy, himself, in certain line of activities” (Hirschi, 1969, pg. 218). This shows that teenagers take into consideration the fact that they may lose something, or gain

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