“It is noteworthy that socioceconomics—that is, poor neighborhoods and poor schools—are prominent in both settings. Long ago, the Coleman report (1966) concluded that family socioeconomic level plays a greater role in children's academic achievement than features of the schools children… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
“From a stratification perspective, we want to understand both immobility and mobility. For immobility, the issue is how status is inherited across generations. Not… — Karl Alexander 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 high school… — Karl Alexander 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 their childhood… — Karl Alexander 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 lower and… — Karl Alexander 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 numerous. The… — Karl Alexander 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 data, the… — 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 twenty Baltimore… — Karl Alexander 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 properly considered… — Karl Alexander 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 is common… — Karl Alexander 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 a book… — Karl Alexander 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, word-of-mouth network… — Karl Alexander 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 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 them to… — Karl Alexander 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, for example,… — Karl Alexander 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 their children's… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
