Every day decisions are made based on assumptions about neighborhoods and their potential impact. Three experts shared their research findings about neighborhoods, and how and why neighborhoods matter above and beyond the individual attributes of the people who live there. Speakers addressed such questions as how neighborhood conditions are intertwined in producing health-related risks, how neighborhoods connect to different patterns of school achievement in children and youth, and how discrimination affects the quality of life and even the costs of living in neighborhoods.
Speakers:
| Troy Duster,
Moderator, University of California,
Berkeley and New York University
Robert J. Sampson, University of Chicago Min Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S. Department of EducationGregory D. Squires, George Washington University |
Sponsored by :
American Sociological Association (ASA)
and
Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA)
(with a generous grant from the Ford Foundation)
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as a scientific discipline and profession serving the public good.
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in representing the full range of social scientists.