Author: Mary Hinman AbelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Successful Family Life on the Moderate Income
Author: Mary Hinman AbelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Successful Family Life on the Moderate Income
Author: Mary Hinman AbelPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330579923
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Excerpt from Successful Family Life on the Moderate Income: Its Foundation in a Fair Start; The Man's Earnings; The Woman's Contribution; The Cooperation of the Community The following discussion is addressed to all those who are inclined to give thoughtful attention to the present-day problems of the family, an institution which is imperfect as man in his development is imperfect, but which reflects every advance in social standards, and is doubtless destined to be modified very profoundly by further social evolution. Such progress will turn in part upon the results of scientific inquiry. Among those to whom the book may be of interest are professional students of the social and economic aspects of the family; home economics students in schools and colleges, men and women who are trying to solve the problems of their own homes, and groups of club women and others who are taking up part-time studies of the home. While it has seemed desirable to draw illustrations from one group, that which is living on the "moderate" income and made up of adults and dependent children, yet it is hoped that principles are evolved which are applicable to many other types and conditions. The whole object of the study is o discover what are the factors of success in its best sense. For those who are debarred from creative self-expression in t he recognized forms of art, there is yet the Art of Living, which includes self-development, a use of all personal resources and an adjustment of our relations to those near us and to the community. For most people this art of living, especially as practised in the family group, must remain the greatest of all arts. The author's thanks are due to Dr. Edward T. Devine for the use of five of the family monographs gathered by his classes in Social Economics in Columbia University, the facts and figures of which have been arranged on a uniform plan, to make comparison easy. Grateful acknowledgment is made to many friends whose contribution of data has broadened the fact basis of the book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Employee Ownership
Author: Joseph R. BlasiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: The Long Shadow
Author: Karl AlexanderPublisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610448235
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A volume in the American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology West Baltimore stands out in the popular imagination as the quintessential “inner city”—gritty, run-down, and marred by drugs and gang violence. Indeed, with the collapse of manufacturing jobs in the 1970s, the area experienced a rapid onset of poverty and high unemployment, with few public resources available to alleviate economic distress. But in stark contrast to the image of a perpetual “urban underclass” depicted in television by shows like The Wire, sociologists Karl Alexander, Doris Entwisle, and Linda Olson present a more nuanced portrait of Baltimore’s inner city residents that employs important new research on the significance of early-life opportunities available to low-income populations. The Long Shadow focuses on children who grew up in west Baltimore neighborhoods and others like them throughout the city, tracing how their early lives in the inner city have affected their long-term well-being. Although research for this book was conducted in Baltimore, that city’s struggles with deindustrialization, white flight, and concentrated poverty were characteristic of most East Coast and Midwest manufacturing cities. The experience of Baltimore’s children who came of age during this era is mirrored in the experiences of urban children across the nation. For 25 years, the authors of The Long Shadow tracked the life progress of a group of almost 800 predominantly low-income Baltimore school children through the Beginning School Study Youth Panel (BSSYP). The study monitored the children’s transitions to young adulthood with special attention to how opportunities available to them as early as first grade shaped their socioeconomic status as adults. The authors’ fine-grained analysis confirms that the children who lived in more cohesive neighborhoods, had stronger families, and attended better schools tended to maintain a higher economic status later in life. As young adults, they held higher-income jobs and had achieved more personal milestones (such as marriage) than their lower-status counterparts. Differences in race and gender further stratified life opportunities for the Baltimore children. As one of the first studies to closely examine the outcomes of inner-city whites in addition to African Americans, data from the BSSYP shows that by adulthood, white men of lower status family background, despite attaining less education on average, were more likely to be employed than any other group in part due to family connections and long-standing racial biases in Baltimore’s industrial economy. Gender imbalances were also evident: the women, who were more likely to be working in low-wage service and clerical jobs, earned less than men. African American women were doubly disadvantaged insofar as they were less likely to be in a stable relationship than white women, and therefore less likely to benefit from a second income. Combining original interviews with Baltimore families, teachers, and other community members with the empirical data gathered from the authors’ groundbreaking research, The Long Shadow unravels the complex connections between socioeconomic origins and socioeconomic destinations to reveal a startling and much-needed examination of who succeeds and why.
Economics of the Household
Author: Benjamin Richard AndrewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Family Life and School Achievement
Author: Reginald M. ClarkPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022622144X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Working mothers, broken homes, poverty, racial or ethnic background, poorly educated parents—these are the usual reasons given for the academic problems of poor urban children. Reginald M. Clark contends, however, that such structural characteristics of families neither predict nor explain the wide variation in academic achievement among children. He emphasizes instead the total family life, stating that the most important indicators of academic potential are embedded in family culture. To support his contentions, Clark offers ten intimate portraits of Black families in Chicago. Visiting the homes of poor one- and two-parent families of high and low achievers, Clark made detailed observations on the quality of home life, noting how family habits and interactions affect school success and what characteristics of family life provide children with "school survival skills," a complex of behaviors, attitudes, and knowledge that are the essential elements in academic success. Clark's conclusions lead to exciting implications for educational policy. If school achievement is not dependent on family structure or income, parents can learn to inculcate school survival skills in their children. Clark offers specific suggestions and strategies for use by teachers, parents, school administrators, and social service policy makers, but his work will also find an audience in urban anthropology, family studies, and Black studies.
Books of 1912-
Author: Bulletin
Author: Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment StationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Pennsylvania. Dept. of Public InstructionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description