Studying the Roles of Nonprofits, Government, and Business in Providing Activities and Services to Youth in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area

Abstract

The article addresses the questions, What do children in urban areas do on Saturdays? What types of organizational resources do they have access to? Does this vary by social class? Using diary data on children’s activities on Saturdays in the Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale metropolitan area, the authors describe the different types of venues (households, businesses, public space, associations, charities, congregations, and government/tribal agencies) that served different types of children. They find that the likelihood of using a charity or business rather than a government or tribal provider increased with family income. Also, the likelihood of using a congregation or a government facility rather than a business, charity, or household increased with being Hispanic. The authors discuss the implications for the urban division of labor on Saturdays and offer research questions that need further investigation.

Residential Segregation, Neighborhood Health Care Organizations, and Children's Health Care Utilization in the Phoenix Urbanized Area

“…A Spanish language version of the survey was also available and utilized when necessary with a bilingual interviewer (4.31 percent of all respondents). A total of 1,138 surveys (N = 1,038 for this project as 100 cases were dropped for missing values) were completed across the Phoenix urbanized area with a cooperation rate of 25.99 percent (see Galaskiewicz [2014] for a detailed memorandum on the data collection procedures in 2013-2014 and Galaskiewicz et al [2013] for a detailed explanation of a previous wave of the survey).…”

Creating in the Crucibles of Nature's Fury

“…The coefficient on the control variable for racial diversity is negative and significant. Racial boundaries carry with them the multiple schisms of interests, stereotypes, and nativism (Bean and Stevens, 2003;Christerson, Emerson, and Edwards, 2005), underlie political and economic competition (Soule, 1992), create variation in social services demanded (Galaskiewicz, Mayorova, and Duckles, 2013), and prompt differences over what collective goods and risks the community should care about (Douglas, 1992;Rao, Yue, and Ingram, 2010). Consistent with this literature, the control model indicates that local social entrepreneurship might be harder when there is high racial diversity, but the underlying forces are various and need to be understood in the context of both social and economic forces.…”

“…The 'organizational problem' is the difficulty of gathering the right set of skills and resources that can be brought to bear on some new unsolved problem (Coleman, 1971), which is constrained by the social system in which actors are embedded (Stinchcombe, 1968(Stinchcombe, , 2005. A large literature in sociology, economics, and political science discusses how the problem of aggregating preferences is compounded by demographic and ideological diversity in the community (Putnam, 2000;Costa and Kahn, 2003;Rao, Yue, and Ingram, 2010;Galaskiewicz, Mayorova, and Duckles, 2013).…”

Racial/Ethnic Residential Segregation, the Distribution of Physician’s Offices and Access to Health Care: The Case of Houston, Texas

“…This has been demonstrated most convincingly in the case of the food deserts literature, in which well over a 100 studies have now shown that poor and minority neighborhoods lack a variety of food resources, and that the disparity relates to both the quantity and quality of the resources available (Algert et al 2006;Beaulac et al 2009;Bower et al 2014;Horowitz et al 2004;Moore and Diez Roux 2006;Morland et al 2002b;Powell et al 2007;Smiley et al 2010;Walker et al 2010). However, beyond food resources, a number of studies have shown that poor and minority communities have disproportionately fewer establishments across a wide variety of types, including fitness and recreation, park space, retail, social services, and civic society (Allard 2009;Allard et al 2003aAllard et al , 2003bAnderson 2017b;Estabrooks et al 2003;Galaskiewicz et al 2013;Gordon-Larsen et al 2006;Marwell and Gullickson 2013;Moore et al 2008;Small and McDermott 2006;Small and Stark 2005;Wilson et al 2004).…”