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This 3 page paper summarizes 1 page from Anne R. Pebley and Narayan Sastry's "Neighborhood, Poverty and Children's Well-Being" in The Inequality Reader, Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race, Class and Gender, edited by David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi. The final page of the this paper offers an outline of the summary. Only the original source is cited.
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Readings in Race, Class and Gender, edited by David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi. The opening paragraph offers a general description of this discussion, which indicates the authors general goal
and their approach to the topic. Pebley and Sastry indicate that neighborhood factors, such as crime, poverty and degree of residential turnout, necessarily influence neighborhoods, which, in turn, impact families
and children. In other words, these factors are interrelated and therefore, affect the condition in these neighborhoods that affect residents and their families. It is also indicated that these
factors fall into four categories, which are the institutions that address child and family related issues; normative environments, social organization and interaction and marriage markets. Each of these categories is
described, beginning with child and family-related institutions. This category includes all of the various organizations that can be found in typical neighborhoods, which includes schools, libraries, youth organizations, child
care providers, religious institutions, social services providers, among others. These institutions are significant to the socialization process and, while access to them and their quality is affected by public policy,
their nature is primarily dependent on the neighborhoods socioeconomic characteristics. For instance, a neighborhood where residents are well educated and affluent is likely to hire more qualified personnel for such
functions as after-school program, child-care services, and so forth. Income also impacts this factor in that, as low income families generally have greater needs, poor neighborhoods may also suffer not
only because their institutions are weaker, but also because the needs of these families place a greater strain on available resources. The next category that the authors address on
this page is social organization and interaction, as they note that this topic has recently garnered considerable attention. The final sentence on the page indicates a fact about social disorganization
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