Monday, November 8, 2010

Cracks in the Pavement - True/False Question

Which of the following is FALSE?

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a) The number of establishments in a neighborhood is a good indicator of a neighborhood's health.
b) In an enterprise establishment, the store owner scolds people for loitering and tells people to leave the establishment if they are not going to buy anything. 
c) When mom and pop stores close, this does not necessarily lead to social disorganization.
d) All of the above are true.
e) All of the above are false.










ANSWERS

a) FALSE. "Whether or not a neighborhood is structured and healthy depends on the functional quality, not quantity, of its establishment's institutional contents" (265).
b) True. "In building an enterprise type of establishment, the owner's first strategy was to limit, and ultimately remove, goup relations and social exchanges in the store" (264).
c) True. "The disappearance of mom and pop stores does not produce social disorganization; it merely initiates a reconfiguration of the social structure and order" (265),
d) There is a false answer.
e) There are two true answers.

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