“From a stratification perspective, we want to understand both immobility and mobility. For immobility, the issue is how status is inherited across… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
“optimism absent feedback from school suggests world view differences across social lines in the nature of Pierre Bourdieu's habitus (1990; Swartz 1977).… — Karl Alexander Education Copy Share Image
“For example, parent support could be most important in the early grades, when children's academic self-image is just beginning to coalesce, but… — Karl Alexander Child Copy Share Image
“Middle-class parents are more verbal generally, their vocabulary is richer and more expressive, and they are more supportive and less controlling in… — Karl Alexander Child Copy Share Image
“Parenthood, it turns out, is common to all the negative transition sequences (that is, those that depress socioeconomic prospects) and delayed parenthood… — Karl Alexander Parenthood Copy Share Image
“Nationally in 2011, poor whites exceeded the poor African American total by roughly eight million: 19,171,000 versus 10,929,000.” — Karl Alexander African american Copy Share Image
“Family life during the early elementary years is our point of departure. Lower socioeconomic status (SES) and disadvantaged minority youth begin school… — Karl Alexander Education Copy Share Image
“By contrast, lower-SES children labor under the burden of cumulative disadvantage imposed by their location in the SES hierarchy. Their parents want… — Karl Alexander Children Copy Share Image
“those African Americans who did manage to penetrate the skilled trades mostly were consigned to low-wage work. According to Social Security Administration… — Karl Alexander African american Copy Share Image
“Differences across social lines in schooling aspirations—initially those of parents and later those of children—are one of the ways the long shadow… — Karl Alexander Aspirations Copy Share Image
“these communities are not just drug dens; they also are home to many “decent folk” (Anderson 2000), the poor, near-poor, and nonpoor… — Karl Alexander Communities Copy Share Image
“In 1960, never-married mothers accounted for fewer than 5 percent of the children of single mothers; by 2006, they accounted for 43… — Karl Alexander African american Copy Share Image
“It is useful to be reminded that in even the most distressed black neighborhoods, the majority of residents are “decent folk” who… — Karl Alexander Community Copy Share Image
“The exclusion of blacks from high-skill, high-wage employment is rooted in Jim Crow and resistance to integration and is sustained through tradition,… — Karl Alexander Jim crow Copy Share Image
“In 1963, Ebony magazine reported that “there [was] not one Negro in building trades apprenticeship training programs in Fort Wayne Indiana, Milwaukee,… — Karl Alexander Fitness Copy Share Image
“Family conditions early in life cast a long shadow. That principle holds broadly, but with exceptions, and in this context they are… — Karl Alexander Family Copy Share Image
“only 1 of every 3 young black male high school dropouts was able to obtain any type of employment during the average… — Karl Alexander African american Copy Share Image
“The Long Shadow implicates family resources and early constraints with regard to socioeconomic standing in young adulthood. The internal environment of the… — Karl Alexander Children Copy Share Image
“The quarter century following World War II was a ‘golden age’ for most workers and their families…, even for men with a… — Karl Alexander African american Copy Share Image
“THIS BOOK is about the reproduction of social advantage and disadvantage across generations in the experience of typical Baltimore youth, anchored in… — Karl Alexander Books Copy Share Image
“counterparts. Although the lower-SES average is higher overall, higher-SES white men have the highest reported levels of binge drinking, of any drug… — Karl Alexander African american Copy Share Image
“This volume aims to identify the resources and personal qualities that help disadvantaged youth, but also the barriers they face. It is… — Karl Alexander Black and white Copy Share Image
“It is noteworthy that socioceconomics—that is, poor neighborhoods and poor schools—are prominent in both settings. Long ago, the Coleman report (1966) concluded… — Karl Alexander Academic achievement Copy Share Image
“It is commonly thought that high-poverty neighborhoods are socially fragmented and suffer a weak sense of community, but that is mistaken (see,… — Karl Alexander Community Copy Share Image
“It is important that this first assessment of parent expectations, having been elicited before the first report card in first grade, is… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
“For almost twenty-five years, we tracked the life progress of 790 children who began first grade in the fall of 1982 in… — Karl Alexander Children Copy Share Image
“Other resources located within the family also weigh on children's development. In figure 7.1, they are represented by parents' psychological support for… — Karl Alexander Children Copy Share Image
“Partly, it is because we tend to think of black and white poverty differently. Sandra Barnes (2005, 17), citing census data from… — Karl Alexander Black and white Copy Share Image
“Problem behaviors potentially are obstacles in both school and labor market, especially for the African American urban disadvantaged. White men, of both… — Karl Alexander African american Copy Share Image
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