The Long Shadow : Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood /

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West Baltimore stands out in the popular imagination as the quintessential "inner city"; gritty, run-down, and marred by drugs and gang violence. Indeed, with the collapse of manufacturing jobs in the 1970s, the area experienced a rapid onset of poverty and high unemployment, with few publ...

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Main Author: Alexander, Karl L.
Other Authors: Olson, Linda Steffel, Entwisle, Doris R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Youth with social disabilities > Education.
Youth with social disabilities.
Poor youth > Social conditions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Familles pauvres > Aspect social > Maryland > Baltimore.
Jeunes pauvres > Maryland > Baltimore > Conditions sociales.
Jeunes socialement defavorises > Maryland > Baltimore.
Poor families > Social aspects > Maryland > Baltimore.
Poor youth > Maryland > Baltimore > Social conditions.
Youth with social disabilities > Education > Maryland > Baltimore.
Youth with social disabilities > Maryland > Baltimore.
Maryland > Baltimore.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The long shadow and urban disadvantage
  • The Baltimore backdrop
  • Family disadvantage
  • Neighborhood and school
  • Transitioning to adulthood
  • Socioeconomic destinations
  • Origins to destinations across generations
  • Stratification by race and gender
  • Life-course perspective of urban disadvantage.

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