SOC318H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Broken Windows Theory, High School Dropouts, Urban Sociology
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****know how to define ses (basic social patterns, work-family conflict, neighbourhoods) Spm: where we live is usually a reflection of our ses, live near and associate ourselves with people that we identify with. Interact and come in contact with people: this space which you interact in is a part of everyday life. Impoverished, racially segregated, single parent families with high levels of high school dropouts: suggests that people living in disadvantaged communities are exposed to more stressors because they lack resources necessary to reduce the stress. Measuring neighborhood disadvantage look at levels of education, levels of high school dropouts levels of employment, income (household and individual) size of households, number of kids in the house immigration status (points on slides) Neighborhood disadvantage, disorder and distress: perceived neighborhood disorder mediates the association between neighborhood disadvantage and depression, remaining net effect of neighborhood disadvantage is associated with higher levels of perceived neighborhood disorder, which in turn, elevates levels of depression.
