I'd like you to post an entry putting forward your own responses (or positions) about the role of leadership elites in community contexts. Demonstrate familiarity with Sampson's chapter, but also express your own opinions clearly. When you're done with that part of the post, append a paragraph discussing how your own research for your presentation is going.
First off, I think the link that Sampson finds showing the connections between the various areas (Community organizations, politics, religion, law, education, business, and other) are very interesting. The influence that politics has on most of the rest of the institutions is high which can be expected, but also the ties between politics/community organizations and religion is noteworthy. It's interesting that in a city like Chicago there is such a high correlation between religion and politics, and I feel that if the same study were conducted here there would be an even higher correlation between the predominant religion and politics and community events.
Secondly, it's interesting to see the ties between all of the leaders at the community level and their ties to one another. Page 343 of the book gives us a good map of the community-level ties and even correlates that to family income, and delves deeper into all of the different ways that a community may be connected.
My research for the presentation is going well so far. It is quite easy to tie Biology and Criminal Justice to one another in some way, because in the past and even in present situations, they have been tied to one another as far as Biology causing crime, and crime being a derivative of our biological influences, etc. The exact topic that I will undertake when preparing for my presentation will be met when that is closer, but there are many useful resources that tie Biology to Criminal Justice and vice versa.
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