According to Herbert J. Gans point of view on how poor people are stereotyped. Herbert pointed out certain postive views that poor people have. What stood out to me was that on page 4 Herbert states"survey after survey has shown that the poor, including many street criminals and drug sellers, want to hold respectable jobs like everyone else. It showed that even today for example in prisons some criminals don't want to be labeled that way anymore they want to labeled as everyone else that the can do something good with their life. But their can be others that think different and say of oh they have a criminal record they dont deserve to be working for such a high level paying job. Just in these example it examples on how criminals are stereotized.
Herbert also points out that even in today society it you are labeled as a "schoool dropout" you are known as not being able to hold a suitable job, may not even be able to get a job, and it can as well go back to how prisoners can be unemployed. By being labeled this way it can cause criminals to stay criminals.It just shows that Herbert's point that in society poor people aren't seen as a postive function they are seen more towards negative.
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