Sociological Analysis Of City Of God

In the Movie City of God it is shot in the slums of Rio de Janeiro’s. In this city, cops never show up, combat photographers are scared to death to go there and the average age of the residents are lucky to make it into their twenties. Once one is in the slums it is very hard to get out at least a live that is. The film was depicted during the late 1960’s to the early 1980’s. Living in these conditions one may never know how long they will live or what they will do with their life. In the article Whose Culture Whose City it says “The growth of the symbolic economy in finance, media, and entertainment may not change the way entrepreneurs do business. But it has already forced the growth of towns and cities, created a vast new work force, and changed the way consumers and employees think.” (Zukin) In other words this is saying that this city needs development from symbolic economy to grow the

Since the citizens of this urban slum had almost no money, the urban crime and youth gang would rise indefinitely until Lil Ze one of the drug lords who was power hungry decided to kill anyone who had anything to do with crimes that he did not order out. The children always looked up to those in power because they would have the most money and what looked like the most amount of fun from the outside. As the children would grow up there was few choices that they could make. One being do they want to be a part of the drug life which the majority would enter because they were either addicted to drugs or addicted to money and would do anything for it. Growing up in these neighborhoods there was not much room for growth in fact they completely lacked any room for social and economic mobility. How is the city supposed to improve if the police are scared to go in there or even worse, are getting paid off by these drug