Sharkey, P., & Faber, J. W. (2014). Where, when, why, and for whom do residential contexts matter? Moving away from the dichotomous understanding of neighborhood effects

Patrick Sharkey and Jacob W. Faber both from the department of sociology in New York university, first published this article online on May 5th., 2014, at the "Annual Review of Sociology", about where, when, why, and for whom residential context effects in regards neighborhoods' stratification and spatial dimension dichocomy.

Explanation:

The sociology study on neighborhoods' effects is based on 2 main statements or dichotmy. Being the firts statement the one focused in the way American neighborhoods are stratified along spatial lines representing, maintaining and multiplying inequality across multiple dimensions. The dicussion involves the need for literature broad explanation or theory on where, when, why, and for whom this environmental effect works in regards consequences on individuals' and families' opportunites beginning with flexible conception and measurement of residential contexts as the complexity of neighborhood operationality definition includes mechanisms on peers' interaction exposures to or pollution. The research should focus on institutions, as school quality, and zoning consequences.

The second approach in this regards is a flexible perspective of continuity in the neighborhood and family life's course, as an important frame for the study of context effects, as individuals' residential environments are never erased from their memories and they persist and build up strong over long periods of time and generations of families.