Review of Literature
I grew up in New York City, one of the biggest and most convoluted living spaces in the modern world. However, here in Emory I met and made friends with people who came from a large variety of states and communal environments. It was this that caused me to question how our separate upbringings in rural, suburban, and urban environments affected our ability to create social ties and the general level of comfort we each have (or lack) in a social setting. I will incorporate the ideas from the Chicago school of sociology, especially the studies written by Fredrick E. Clemens who was the “father” of this form of urban examination and developed many of the base ideas. I will also use studies from the American Journal of Psychiatry which compare both the rate and level of mental development as well as the rate of psychiatric disorders in children who were raised in rural and urban environments.
Finally, I have several articles and op-ed pieces where the authors discuss their upbringings in different social environments and how that may have affected their adult psyche. I am also in the process of going through a few videos which I found online which talk about being raised in urban versus suburban and rural environments. I think that these would prove more as more effective secondary sources not only because videos are often easier to understand and digest than essays but also because they will fall well into this semester’s theme of multimodality. I believe that these secondary sources, as well as the interviews, would provide me with a reasonably satisfying answer to my question.
Finally, I have several articles and op-ed pieces where the authors discuss their upbringings in different social environments and how that may have affected their adult psyche. I am also in the process of going through a few videos which I found online which talk about being raised in urban versus suburban and rural environments. I think that these would prove more as more effective secondary sources not only because videos are often easier to understand and digest than essays but also because they will fall well into this semester’s theme of multimodality. I believe that these secondary sources, as well as the interviews, would provide me with a reasonably satisfying answer to my question.