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Inverted Quarantine: Individual Response To Collective Fear, Katherine Parker Moncure
Inverted Quarantine: Individual Response To Collective Fear, Katherine Parker Moncure
Honors Papers
In his 2007 book Shopping Our Way to Safety, sociologist Andrew Szasz coined the term inverted quarantine to describe a phenomenon in the way that Americans react to the changing natural environment. Inverted quarantine, or the impulse to remove one’s self from perceived environmental dangers, often manifests in consumption behavior such as consuming only organic food, drinking filtered or bottled water, moving from a city to a suburb, or even being enclosed in a gated community. Although inverted quarantine may result in some form of protection, in the long run it is unsustainable in the face of the changing natural …
Report On Honors Research: An Exploratory Study Of Puerto Ricans In Lorain, Ohio, Karen Beck Skold
Report On Honors Research: An Exploratory Study Of Puerto Ricans In Lorain, Ohio, Karen Beck Skold
Honors Papers
The Puerto Rican community in Lorain, Ohio dates from 1946, when the first 100 workers were imported by the steel company. Since that time the Latin community has grown to 10,000, comprising a proportionately large segment of the city's total population of approximately 75,000. Most studies of the adaptation of Puerto Rican migrants to life in the United States are based on New York City; to my knowledge the Lorain population has never been the subject of a systematic sociological investigation. Although "El Barrio" in New York is still the largest continental settlement of Puerto Ricans and remains a reference …