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Nicotera, Nicole.

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Children and their neighborhoods: A mixed methods approach to understanding the construct neighborhood.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Children and their neighborhoods: A mixed methods approach to understanding the construct neighborhood./
Author:	Nicotera, Nicole.
Description:	321 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-11, Section: A, page: 4095.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-11A.
Subject:	Social Work. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3072123
ISBN:	0493920250

Children and their neighborhoods: A mixed methods approach to understanding the construct neighborhood.
Nicotera, Nicole.

Children and their neighborhoods: A mixed methods approach to understanding the construct neighborhood. - 321 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-11, Section: A, page: 4095.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2002.

This dissertation explored the construct neighborhood through children's voices and 2000 U.S. census data. While children are the target of much of the theorizing and research related to how neighborhoods affect individual outcomes, their voices are rarely included in these endeavors. In addition, one of the methodological obstacles to discovering definitive associations between neighborhood environments and individual outcomes is related to issues of measuring neighborhoods.

ISBN: 0493920250Subjects--Topical Terms:

617587
Social Work.

Children and their neighborhoods: A mixed methods approach to understanding the construct neighborhood.
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520 $a Traditional frameworks that explain how neighborhoods affect individual outcomes, such as Social Disorganization Theory, employ census data as a proxy measure for neighborhood environments. While these measures provide information about the structural aspects of a neighborhood they obscure the social processes and other mechanisms at work in the neighborhood. Other models, such as Pluralistic Neighborhood theory, posit that the inclusion of residents' voices and an exploration of neighborhood strengths are key for obtaining a clearer understanding about the ways in which people are impacted by the locales where they reside. The two theories, taken side by side, suggest that both census data and residents' voices are important ingredients for understanding neighborhoods. However, it is not clear how these two modes, one quantitative and the other qualitative, are or are not reflected in one another. Hence, the necessity for this exploratory/descriptive study in which a qualitative construction of neighborhood, based on children's perceptions, is compared with a quantitative construction of neighborhood, based on 2000 census data.
520 $a Results demonstrate that there are discrepancies between the experiences of neighborhood child residents and the structural descriptions of those neighborhoods as framed in Social Disorganization Theory. In general, neighborhoods that would be labeled by census data as highly, moderately, or lowly socially disorganized are not consistent with the lived experiences of the children who reside in those same neighborhoods. Additionally, when viewed through the lens of childhood, the construct neighborhood is defined via nine dimensions that reflect both the strengths and weaknesses of local neighborhood social processes and neighborhood conditions/resources. This construction of neighborhood is inconsistent with the deficit based definition of neighborhood suggested by Social Disorganization Theory. Implications for social welfare research are discussed.
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