Assignment 3 Summary Essay of Gramlich’s When Public Doesn’t mean Public Sagar Shah SOC101-011 James Gramlich December 9, 2014 In his essay, When Public Doesn’t mean public, Gramlich emphasizes public response on the homeless people and directed towards three considerable factors of the homeless public: behavior, limitation, and response. Frames, which provides outline for the explanation of experiences and detailed perceived social behavior by presenting the functions of those around them, and explicit from the inequity. According to the public response in Chicago and London to the strategies of homeless individuals, there are many key categories or frames can be classified in different numbers. First, the irresponsible …show more content…
At the reality, stigma, the homeless make potential lifestyle and income strategy choices. Sometimes, they verbally identify themselves as homeless in order to bond with what they hope is a more commiserative to public and thus help to ruin their own image by making their stigmas known or by confirming what the public supposes. Venders and beggars have different perspective to identify themselves as homeless people; vendors are not verbally identify themselves as homeless, which is true in both Chicago and London. Mainly, vendors are more likely to supplicate than beggars, which is especially true in …show more content…
The homeless are faced with a continuing need to satisfy a set of basic needs that are shared not only amongst themselves, but with the domiciled public as well. These require including income, food, shelter, and elimination. Homeless street people, although, must satisfy these needs in the absence of both the privacy and conventional supports available to the domiciled public. As a result, institutional and political responses that affect on the means to satisfy the needs create considerable barriers that the homeless must conquer, creating their survival strategies and, thus, their public