Community Quote by Karl Alexander

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Nationally in 2011, poor whites exceeded the poor African American total by roughly eight million: 19,171,000 versus 10,929,000.”

— Karl Alexander