scholarly journals Neighbourhood-based social integration. The importance of the local context for different forms of resource transfer

2019 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Farwick ◽  
Heike Hanhörster ◽  
Isabel Ramos Lobato ◽  
Wiebke Striemer
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Deprived Neighbourhoods ◽  
Social Mix ◽  
Resource Transfers ◽  
Upward Social Mobility ◽  
Families With Children ◽  
Everyday Problems

AbstractDue to their lack of financial resources, poor residents of deprived neighbourhoods are very much reliant on support and assistance from their personal networks. Studies refer to the key importance of neighbourhood contacts transcending social boundaries to promote upward social mobility. Based on a mix of quantitative and qualitative findings, this paper looks at the importance of social mix within a person’s neighbourhood and immediate surroundings for transferring different kinds of resources. The results show that even residents of deprived neighbourhoods can call on a well-developed support network to deal with everyday problems. The contribution also shows that network contacts to people endowed with more resources are no guarantee for the upward social mobility of the less well endowed. Indeed, it would seem that ‘getting-ahead’ resources are also accessible via their homogeneous networks. Much more to the point, the immediate surroundings turn out to be an important spatial context for contacts and resource transfers, especially for families with children.

Bringing inequality closer: A comparative outlook at socially diverse neighbourhoods in Chicago and Santiago de Chile1

Divercities ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 139-164
Author(s):  
Javier Ruiz-Tagle
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Physical Proximity ◽  
Symbolic Integration ◽  
Social Mix ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Intergroup Relationships ◽  
Spatial Configurations ◽  
Upward Social Mobility ◽  
La Florida

This chapter addresses the issues of segregation and social mix by comparing two socially diverse neighbourhoods in Chicago (Cabrini Green and Near North) and Santiago (La Loma and La Florida area). It aims to understand how social relationships can be modified by a change in spatial configurations, questioning whether intergroup physical proximity triggers other processes of integration, notably functional, relational, and symbolic integration. Social mix leads to more amenities and some institutional change, but not to upward social mobility for the poor. Moreover, intergroup relationships in these socially mixed neighbourhoods are marked by fear, distrust, and avoidance and governed by increased material and symbolic competition. Ultimately, the physical proximity of social mix conceals the persistence of inequality and the forces that are actively maintaining segregation.

Upward social mobility in China: Do cities and neighbourhoods matter?

2018 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 94-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongsheng Chen ◽  
Xingping Wang ◽  
Guo Chen ◽  
Zhigang Li
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Upward Social Mobility

Producing communities and commodities: Safaricom and commercial nationalism in Kenya

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Tuwei ◽  
Melissa Tully
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Mobile Services ◽  
Economic Success ◽  
Economic Growth And Development ◽  
National Sentiment ◽  
Upward Social Mobility ◽  
The Government

This research analyses Safaricom, one of the most established mobile operators in Kenya. Alongside the provision of mobile services, Safaricom has closely engaged with the government of Kenya, even getting involved in the nation’s politics. This study examines Safaricom’s advertisements from 2010-2014 to explore its use of national sentiment in its marketing. We argue that the ads reflect a commitment to promoting the country and its products through discourses of ‘commercial nationalism’, which present Safaricom as a driver of economic growth and development in Kenya. These discourses link Kenyan identity and distinctiveness to consumerism, commercial and economic success, profit and upward social mobility.

scholarly journals Strengthening and weakening factors for breastfeeding from the perspective of the nursing mother and her family

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lívia Perissé Baroni Wagner ◽  
Verônica de Azevedo Mazza ◽  
Silvana Regina Rossi Kissula Souza ◽  
Anna Chiesa ◽  
Maria Ribeiro Lacerda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Care Process ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Maternal Illness ◽  
Nursing Mothers ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Families With Children

Abstract Objective: To describe the strengthening and weakening factors for breastfeeding. Method: This is a descriptive multiple case qualitative study, conducted in Curitiba, Parana, with members of 17 families with children between 6 and 12 months old, through semi-structured interview and construction of genograms, analyzed by the strategy of cross case synthesis. Results: 28 people participated in the study. Strengthening factors for breastfeeding were: the desire to breastfeed; child with facility for breastfeeding; mother with time available to the child; previous breastfeeding experience and family history of breastfeeding; the support and encouragement to breastfeed. Weakening factors were: negative expectations; the myth of weak milk; child’s disease; maternal illness; negative experiences of the mother; the absence of family history of breastfeeding; lack of a support network. Conclusion: Breastfeeding is a family and social phenomenon. Therefore, practices that go beyond the mother-baby dyad are necessary. The care process should include the social and subjective dimension, strengthening the support network of nursing mothers, in order to obtain more satisfactory professional practices that promote breastfeeding.

scholarly journals ‘We’ll Help Ourselves, but What’s in It for Us?’ Conflict, Development and Social Mobility among Roma in Romania

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 365-378
Author(s):  
Ana Ivasiuc
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Strategic Group ◽  
Related Development ◽  
Upward Social Mobility ◽  
The Cost

AbstractRoma-related development and policy discourse often represents the Roma development ‘subjects’ as disempowered victims. Against the pervasiveness of such narratives, a close look at the local level conflicts arising during the implementation of a World Bank development project in destitute Roma communities from Romania lays bare the strategies of unassisted social mobility in which a group of Roma engage. Not large or well-defined enough to be constituted into a real ‘class’ in sociological terms, this strategic group is made up of Roma civil servants (mediators, local experts, Romani language teachers) who negotiate their engagement in development projects on their own terms and use the material and immaterial resources that projects offer to enact their own upward social mobility. Often, though, this comes at the cost of a growing socio-economic gap between themselves and the most destitute parts of Roma communities, which complicates their involvement in development projects. The article underlines the necessity of taking into account both the strategies of unassisted social mobility of Roma development brokers, and the internal power imbalances that the development apparatus inevitably ends up producing in Roma communities.

Protestantism and the Latin American Middle Class

1971 ◽  
Vol os-18 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-28
Author(s):  
Charles F. Denton
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Upward Social Mobility ◽  
The Church ◽  
Positive Force

The author feels that the development of a middle class in Latin America has been fostered by the effects of Protestant evangelism among the lower classes, which has spurred upward social mobility. But instead of becoming a positive force for social and economic reform, this middle class has become as reactionary as the small traditional upper class. This, together with the inability of most Protestant pastors to minister effectively to middle class persons and intellectuals, is a serious problem for the church in Latin America.

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