
Reconsidering the Urban Disadvantaged: The Role of Systems, Institutions, and Organizations
Small, Mario Luis
allard, Scott
The recent economic recession and a sluggish recovery have made conditions especially precarious for the most disadvantaged members of the urban poor population—those with criminal records, health conditions, undocumented status, or unstable housing. The authors in this volume of The ANNALS argue that the fewer the resources to which people have access, the more their circumstances will depend on the organizations in which they participate, the systems in which these organizations operate, and the institutions governing the behaviour of both. Over the last 25 years, social science on urban poverty has grappled primarily with evidence of deindustrialization and the loss of low-skilled manufacturing jobs. In turn, structural economic change has transformed family structure, educational attainment, crime, and geographic concentration of the poor. Researchers have approached these issues from a limited set of theoretical perspectives, perspectives wherein the core units of analysis, aside from the market, have been the individual and the neighbourhood. The editors of this volume argue that, today, understanding the conditions of these highly disadvantaged populations requires a focus on not only individuals and their neighbourhoods but also, and perhaps more importantly, on the organizations that structure their lives, the systems in which those organizations are embedded, and the institutions that regulate both. INDICE: Introduction: Reconsidering the Urban Disadvantaged: The Role of Systems, Institutions, and Organizations; Scott W. Allard and Mario L. SmallTransnationalism and Community Building: Chinese Immigrant Organizations in the United States; Min Zhou and Rennie LeeStudying the Roles of Nonprofits, Government, and Business in Providing Activities and Services to Youth in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area; Joseph Galaskiewicz, Olga V. Mayorova, and Beth M. DucklesThe Micro Dynamics of Support Seeking: The Social and Economic Utility of Institutional Ties for HIV-Positive Women; Celeste Watkins-HayesThe Development of Sectoral Worker Center Networks; Hector R. Cordero-Guzman, Pamela A. Izvnariu, and Victor NarroPeople, Place and System: Organizations and the Renewal of Urban Social Theory; Nicole P. Marwell and Michael McQuarrieBeyond Hierarchies and Markets: Are Decentralized Schools Lifting Poor Children?; Bruce Fuller and Danfeng Soto-Vigil KoonMass Incarceration, Macrosociology, and the Poor; Bruce Western and Christopher MullerCan Drug Courts Help To Reduce Prison and Jail Populations?; Eric L. Sevigny, Harold A. Pollack, and Peter ReuterHome is Hard to Find: Neighborhoods, Institutions, and the Residential Trajectories of Returning Prisoners; David J. Harding, Jeffrey D. Morenoff, and Claire W. HerbertIntegration and Exclusion: Urban Poverty, Public Housing Reform, and the Dynamics of Neighborhood Restructuring; Robert J. ChaskinSegregating Shelter: How Housing Policies Shape the Residential Locations of Low-Income Minority Families; Stefanie DeLuca, Philip M.E. Garboden, and Peter Rosenblatt
- ISBN: 978-1-4833-0657-5
- Editorial: SAGE Publications, Inc
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Fecha Publicación: 31/07/2013
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
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