Growth, Politics, and the Stratification of Places

Logan, John

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“…Although discrimination in the housing market was made illegal with the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, audit studies conducted in 1989 and 2000 provide strong evidence that racial discrimination in rental housing and home mortgage lending remains prevalent in American cities, although it has become less common over time (Turner et al 2002;Yinger 1995). At a more general level, place stratification theory contends that residents and other representatives of neighborhoods that enjoy an advantaged position in the "hierarchy of places" use institutional and informal means to maintain their position, in part by keeping undesirable residents out of the neighborhood (Logan 1978). This perspective is consistent with the literature on "defended neighborhoods" (Green, Strolovitch, and Wong 1998) and the extensive literature documenting the steps taken by residents, the real estate industry, and the government to restrict black Americans to specific sections of urban areas and to maintain boundaries between minority ghettos and white neighborhoods (Dreier, Mollenkopf, and Swanstrom 2001;Massey and Denton 1993;Yinger 1995).…”

Section: The Mechanisms Underlying Intergenerational Contextual Mobilitymentioning

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Context

Sharkey

2008

American Journal of Sociology

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This article draws on the extensive literature on economic and social mobility in America to examine intergenerational contextual mobility, defined as the degree to which inequalities in neighborhood environments persist across generations. PSID data are analyzed to reveal remarkable continuity in neighborhood economic status from one generation to the next. The primary consequence of persistent neighborhood stratification is that the racial inequality in America's neighborhoods that existed a generation ago has been transmitted, for the most part unchanged, to the current generation. More than 70% of black children who grow up in the poorest quarter of American neighborhoods remain in the poorest quarter of neighborhoods as adults, compared to 40% of whites. The results suggest that racial inequality in neighborhood economic status is substantially underestimated with short-term measures of neighborhood income or poverty and, second, that the steps taken to end racial discrimination in the housing and lending markets have not enabled black Americans to advance out of America's poorest neighborhoods.A long and rich tradition of research in the social sciences is devoted to describing and explaining patterns of social and economic mobility in 1 I thank Robert Sampson, William Julius Wilson, and Chris Winship for their critical input on this project. I am also grateful for feedback from audiences at several universities at which I presented the paper. I received particularly detailed and valuable comments from Xavier de

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Section: The Mechanisms Underlying Intergenerational Contextual Mobilitymentioning

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Context

Sharkey

2008

American Journal of Sociology

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“…The social class hypothesis argues that support for growth management originates from higher social class households who wish to exclude lower social class households from the community (Molotch 1976;Logan 1978). Overall, the empirical evidence on the social class hypothesis is not unequivocal.…”

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“…Un alto nivel de segregación en cualquiera de estas dimensiones es problemático ya que indica que el sistema educativo de un país está aislando al grupo minoritario de los principales servicios, oportunidades y recursos que afectan a su bienestar (Logan, 1978;Massey, Condran, y Denton, 1987;Schneider y Logan, 1982. De manera que, a medida que el nivel de segregación se acumula en las diferentes dimensiones, los efectos de la segregación se multiplican porque el aislamiento del grupo minoritario se intensifica (Massey y Denton, 1989).…”

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Midiendo la segregación escolar en América Latina. Un análisis metodológico utilizando el TERCE / Measuring the School Segregation in Latin America. A Methodological Analysis using TERCE

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2016

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Descriptores: Segregación escolar, Estatus socioeconómico, Educación básica, América Latina, Metodología.School segregation, understood as the unequal distribution of students in schools based on their personal or social characteristics, is an element of educational equity with a clear impact on social injustice that has not been deeply studied in Latin America. This article presents a methodological guide on the use of different schooling segregation index available to estimate its magnitude. There is debate about the advantages and limitations of each index. Similarly, the magnitude of school segregation by socioeconomic status in Primary Education in Latin America is determined. Index of Dissimilarity, Gorard, Isolation, Square Root and SocioEconomic Inclusion analysed with different criteria forming the minority group: P10, Q1 and Q4. The results provide a broad discussion on the potential of each index. The use of the index of socioeconomic inclusion defends as well as the use of average between Q1 and Q4 to get an overall picture of the phenomenon. For this, the TERCE database is used, and high magnitude of school segregation in Latin America are offered.

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Growth, Politics, and the Stratification of Places

Cited by 280 publications

References 26 publications

The Intergenerational Transmission of Context

The Intergenerational Transmission of Context

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Midiendo la segregación escolar en América Latina. Un análisis metodológico utilizando el TERCE / Measuring the School Segregation in Latin America. A Methodological Analysis using TERCE

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