Comment One
After a week of midterms and no time to blog on a visit to a specific location, I decided to comment on a fellow students blog post. This week I will be commenting on a blog written by The Footprint. Last week, this student in our class took a bus trip along the famous Sunset Strip. I had a similar journey during week two where I took a car ride down Sunset Blvd; however, our journeys were very different because of our means of transportation. This student had a very different experience with the bus journey and the people they encountered on the bus. In my blog I used the textbook reading by Ernest Burgess about the different zones and cities being purely American. This student used Emile Durkheim's reading, The Division of Labor in Society.
This student effectively used Durkheim's reading to relate the division of labor to the different types of people who ride the bus each day in this metropolitan city. They had the perfect example of a man who was "too good" to ride the bus and a woman who used public transportation each day. They correlated both readings from the class into their journey and proved that the division of labor can be seen in the affluent areas of Los Angeles. On my journey, I also noticed that there were fewer bus stops in the affluent areas i.e. Beverly Hills and Bel Air and this student related this concept to the fact that the Department of Transportation does not expect individuals to use the bus in the affluent areas of Los Angeles. When travelling by car I was unable to see Sunset Strip the way this student was able to. The division of labor and unequal class systems are prevalent all across Los Angeles and in many societies across the country and the world.
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