Deck 11: Elijah Anderson, the Code of the Streets

Question 1

Anderson compares and contrasts "street" orientation to

A) decent orientation.
B) home orientation and family orientation.
C) alienation orientation.
D) school orientation and work orientation.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The code of the streets applies to whom?

A) police and social workers who try to help solve urban problems
B) a small portion of inner-city youth
C) anyone who wants to be successful
D) women (and a few men) who have lost hope of ever having a family and a home

Answer 2

B

Question 3

To know and practice the code of the streets is to be

A) an operator.
B) manipulated by "the boss."
C) a real man.
D) defeated by the difficulties in life.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The essay "Code of the Street" is about

A) organized crime in the drug trade.
B) prostitutes who publicly hustle "johns."
C) people living outside the formal or "taxed" economy, through the barter system and cash transactions.
D) young athletes who aspire to be professional stars.

Question 5

Anderson sees much of the code of the streets as an effort to

A) avoid crime and prison.
B) acquire the good things in life-material affluence and security.
C) escape the ghetto.
D) gain respect.

Question 6

"Street" or a person's adoption of what Anderson calls the "orientation of the street" is a response to

A) globalization and corporate control of popular images.
B) racial, ethnic, and class prejudice.
C) violence and very limited means of achievement in the person's environment.
D) popular culture's images of success and accomplishment, that is, making it