Neighborhood Inequality

Neighborhoods matter to inequality on how it can shape children’s lives as adults, financial outcomes. Families who have “impoverished” neighborhood backgrounds are more likely to continue living in poverty for generations to come. Rising in poverished residential environments for generations, is more harmful than living in a poor neighborhood in a single generation. In the predicament carters are in, Sharkey may add that family members who are successful for generations may end up similar neighborhood environments by having resources available to them such as financial capital. Living in wealthier neighborhoods increases children’s educational attainments. folks living in working class neighborhoods may continue living there even if nailing a white-collar occupation. Two-parent family have more of an upward mobility than single parents. Sharkey also emphasizes that ghettos are not persisted but inherited over generations. “Neighborhood inequality may be one of the most rigid dimensions of inequality in America” (35). Living in the ghettos or places with high poverty affects educational outcomes since schools are much poorer and there are fewer resources given to them. Sharkey describes the distinct tie between neighborhoods plays a direct role in reproducing inequality. Sharkey focuses on how inequality in neighborhoods can be multigenerational followed by affecting the trajectory
Parent’s fostering their children’s talents through organized activities, enhances their children’s ability to do well in school and in the working force. Cultural capital produced by the middle-class families puts them at an advantage over the lower-class families. Discarding concerted cultivation places families on an even playing field since lower class families are not able to give out as much resources as middle-class parents