“Family life during the early elementary years is our point of departure. Lower socioeconomic status (SES) and disadvantaged minority youth begin school already behind on all criteria commonly used to gauge school readiness” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
