Stage 1: Within the subject of GENTRIFICATION, choose a general sociological topic that is of interest to you. To get ideas you may want to look over the course syllabus, re-read the Biro article assigned last week; check out the readings done in class and articles assigned, conversations we’ve had in class, or look through some sociological blogs (these blogs are NOT to be used as references/sources, but only as guides to help you with a potential topic):
a. Vanishing New York Blog: http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/b. Sociological Images: http://contexts.org/socimages/c. Contexts Crawler: http://contexts.org/crawler/d. Contexts Discoveries: http://contexts.org/discoveries/e. Sociological Eye: http://contexts.org/eye/f. Social Science Weblogs: http://www.sociosite.net/weblogs.php
g. Any local newspaper will also assist with this part of the assignment.
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