scholarly journals Racial Inequality, Neighborhood Effects, and Moving to Opportunity

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Dionissi Aliprantis
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Moving To Opportunity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Physical Environment ◽  
New Research

Moving to Opportunity (MTO) was a housing mobility program designed to investigate neighborhood effects, the influences of the social and physical environment on human development and well-being. Some of the results from MTO have been interpreted as evidence that neighborhood effects are not as strong as earlier evidence had indicated. This Commentary discusses new research suggesting that neighborhood effects are, on the contrary, as strong and policy relevant as suspected before the experiment. This Commentary also discusses why the interpretation of the MTO data is important: If neighborhood effects drive outcomes, then addressing racial inequality requires concerted efforts beyond ending racial discrimination.

scholarly journals Beyond Virtual Classrooms: Exploring Feelings in the Social World

2021 ◽  
pp. 104837132098516
Author(s):  
Chiao-Wei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Virtual Classroom ◽  
Supportive Relationships ◽  
Virtual Classrooms ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Chronic Stressor

In this column, I continue to focus on creating supportive relationships in the virtual classroom amid the pandemic and growing social unrest. As many schools continue to shift between hybrid and remote learning, I ask, how do we address our own and students’ emotional well-being to promote active learning during the pandemic? How can we as teachers help students cope with this chronic stressor, be it the COVID-19 pandemic or the racial inequality? I share my own personal experiences and argue that affect/feelings/emotions are embodied thoughts imbricated with social values and often involved in the preservation of social expectations and power relations. I suggest that educators recognize affect/feelings/emotions as a critical part of students’ embodied experiences, encourage students to attend to their surrounding world and live their life with heightened consciousness and reflectiveness. I end this column with a few curriculum ideas for readers to consider.

scholarly journals Perceptions of the social and physical environment of adolescents’ dietary behaviour in neighbourhoods of different socioeconomic position

Appetite ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 159 ◽  
pp. 105070
Author(s):  
Hanne Hennig Havdal ◽  
Elisabeth Fosse ◽  
Mekdes Kebede Gebremariam ◽  
Jeroen Lakerveld ◽  
Onyebuchi A. Arah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Position ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Dietary Behaviour ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Physical Environment

scholarly journals The subjective wellbeing of migrants in Guangzhou, China: The impacts of the social and physical environment

Cities ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 333-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuqi Liu ◽  
Fangzhu Zhang ◽  
Fulong Wu ◽  
Ye Liu ◽  
Zhigang Li
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
Subjective Wellbeing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Physical Environment

scholarly journals Los determinantes de la satisfacción residencial en México / Determinants of residential satisfaction in Mexico

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 283
Author(s):  
Alejandra Martínez Ibarra ◽  
Jorge Ibarra Salazar
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Residential Satisfaction ◽  
Satisfaction Survey ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Housing Characteristics ◽  
The Social

En este artículo analizamos los determinantes de la satisfacción residencial en México a partir de los resultados de la Encuesta de Satisfacción Residencial 2013. Los datos están agregados en 512 conjuntos habitacionales. Estimamos diferentes especificaciones por mínimos cuadrados generalizados para relacionar el índice de satisfacción residencial con variables independientes agrupadas en: características personales, aspectos económicos de la vivienda, medio ambiente físico, medio ambiente social, características de la vivienda, y localización y proximidad. Encontramos que las variables relacionadas con el medio ambiente físico y el medio ambiente social ayudan a explicar las variaciones en la satisfacción residencial promedio entre los conjuntos habitacionales en México. Estos hallazgos indican áreas de oportunidad para la política de vivienda que pueden mejorar el bienestar de los residentes.AbstractIn this paper, we analyze the determinants of residential satisfaction in Mexico on the basis of the results of the Residential Satisfaction Survey 2013. The data are aggregated into 512 housing complexes. We estimate different specifications generalized by least squares to link the rate of residential satisfaction to independent variables grouped into personal characteristics, economic aspects of the dwelling, physical environment, social environment, housing characteristics and location and proximity. We found that the variables related to the physical environment and the social environment account for the variations in average residential satisfaction in housing complexes in Mexico. These findings indicate areas of opportunity for housing policy that could improve residents’ well-being.

scholarly journals Participation and the social and physical environment of residential blocks: Crime and community context

1990 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas D. Perkins ◽  
Paul Florin ◽  
Richard C. Rich ◽  
Abraham Wandersman ◽  
David M. Chavis
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
Community Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Physical Environment

Brains in bodies in the—social, built, and natural—environment

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-72
Author(s):  
Michael A. Arbib
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Schema Theory ◽  
Neural Circuitry ◽  
Action Perception ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Physical Environment ◽  
Physical Construction

Each brain enlivens a body in interaction with the social and physical environment. Peter Zumthor’s Therme at Vals exemplifies the interplay of interior with surroundings, and ways the actions of users fuse with their multimodal experience. The action–perception cycle includes both practical and contemplative actions. The author analyzes what Louis Sullivan meant by “form ever follows function,” but more often talks of aesthetics and utility. Not only are action, perception, and emotion intertwined, but so are remembering and imagination. Architectural design leads to the physical construction of buildings—but much of what our brains achieve can be seen as a form of mental construction. A first look at neuroscience offers schema theory as a bridge from cognitive processes to neural circuitry. Some architects fear that neuroscience will strip the architect of any creativity. In counterpoint, two-way reduction explores how neuroscience can “dissect” phenomenology by showing how first-person experiences arise from melding diverse subconscious processes. This raises the possibility that neuroscience can extend the effectiveness of architectural design by showing how different aspects of a building may affect human experience in ways that are not apparent to self-reflection.

Improvisation, Democracy, and Feedback

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Belgrad
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Feedback Loops ◽  
Self In Relation ◽  
Public Supply ◽  
Contact Improvisation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Physical Environment ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

In the 1960s and 1970s, improvisational artists explored the use of feedback, both as a creative method and a model of the self in relation to its social and physical environment. As an alternative to centralized authority structures, feedback loops could be used to organize decentralized events or activities. The result would be a self-informing system, or autopoiesis. This idea informed the new field of cybernetics and the social philosophy of Paul Goodman and Gregory Bateson. Max Neuhaus’s realization of John Cage’s composition,Fontana Mix—Feed, made use of this structure, as did his later broadcast works,Public SupplyandRadio Net, and the dance form of “contact improvisation” developed by Steve Paxton. In these works, attention to the dynamics of interaction (“deutero-learning”) fostered an improvisational style based on a heightened environmental awareness rather than an exteriorization of the internal psyche, thus pioneering the postmodern, networked self.

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