Community Organization and the Life Course Export

@incollection{citeulike:1669212, abstract = {A fundamental proposition of developmental science is that social contexts affect human development. Communities and, more specifically, neighborhoods are one of several central settings of everyday life, and they undoubtedly lend the life course significant shape and meaning. Neighborhoods may affect the physical, psychological, or social development of individuals. These effects might be tied to the composition and structure of neighborhoods, the social processes that occur within them, or specific combinations of composition, structure, and process. Several aspects of neighborhoods seem especially important to human development. These include the age, sex, race, and socioeconomic composition of a neighborhood; the quality of schools and other local institutions; the availability of resources and services; the degrees and types of social cohesion, order, and control; and changes in these over time. Most scholarship has focused on the impact of neighborhood environments on the developmental outcomes of children and adolescents and, to a lesser degree, of the elderly. Several theoretical models have guided most inquiry in this area, namely contagion models, models of social disorganization, models of collective socialization, competition models, models of relative deprivation, and institutional models. The article ends with a brief discussion of new directions for research, policy, and practice.}, address = {http://www.elsevier.com}, author = {Settersten, R. A.}, booktitle = {International Encyclopedia of the Social \& Behavioral Sciences}, citeulike-article-id = {1669212}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B0-08-043076-7/01369-3}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MiamiImageURL&_imagekey=B7MRM-4MT09VJ-1J-1&_cdi=23486&_user=949111&_check=y&_idxType=SC&view=c&wchp=dGLbVtb-zSkWz&md5=1bd1fd8d83961a09d9f96d36f258ef80&ie=/sdarticle.pdf}, doi = {10.1016/B0-08-043076-7/01369-3}, editor = {Neil}, keywords = {community, encyclopedia\_dictionary, neighborhood}, pages = {2367--2371}, posted-at = {2007-09-18 14:33:17}, priority = {0}, publisher = {Amsterdam: Elsevier}, title = {Community Organization and the Life Course}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B0-08-043076-7/01369-3}, year = {2001} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:1669212 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1669212 N2 - A fundamental proposition of developmental science is that social contexts affect human development. Communities and, more specifically, neighborhoods are one of several central settings of everyday life, and they undoubtedly lend the life course significant shape and meaning. Neighborhoods may affect the physical, psychological, or social development of individuals. These effects might be tied to the composition and structure of neighborhoods, the social processes that occur within them, or specific combinations of composition, structure, and process. Several aspects of neighborhoods seem especially important to human development. These include the age, sex, race, and socioeconomic composition of a neighborhood; the quality of schools and other local institutions; the availability of resources and services; the degrees and types of social cohesion, order, and control; and changes in these over time. Most scholarship has focused on the impact of neighborhood environments on the developmental outcomes of children and adolescents and, to a lesser degree, of the elderly. Several theoretical models have guided most inquiry in this area, namely contagion models, models of social disorganization, models of collective socialization, competition models, models of relative deprivation, and institutional models. The article ends with a brief discussion of new directions for research, policy, and practice. AD - http://www.elsevier.com EP - 2371 TI - Community Organization and the Life Course PB - Amsterdam: Elsevier T2 - International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences SP - 2367 KW - community KW - encyclopedia_dictionary KW - neighborhood AU - Settersten, RA A2 - Neil PY - 2001/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B0-08-043076-7/01369-3 ER -