...socially isolated from the work culture. William Julius Wilson explains that in ghetto neighborhoods, "the chances are overwhelming that children will seldom...on a sustained basis with people who are employed," and will be exposed instead to "joblessness, as a way of life." As a consequence, such individuals...

...socially isolated from the work culture. William Julius Wilson explains that in ghetto neighborhoods, "the chances are overwhelming that children will seldom...on a sustained basis with people who are employed," and will be exposed instead to "joblessness, as a way of life." As a consequence, such individuals...

...socially isolated from the work culture. William Julius Wilson explains that in ghetto neighborhoods, "the chances are overwhelming that children will seldom...on a sustained basis with people who are employed," and will be exposed instead to "joblessness, as a way of life." As a consequence, such individuals...

...further reduced the presence of successful lives to emulate and respect. "Thus, in such neighborhoods the chances are overwhelming that children will seldom...employed or with families that have a steady breadwinner" (Wilson 1987:57). The role models that remain are the drug dealers, pimps, and thugs who play by a...

...Thus, in such neighbourhoods the chances are that children seldom experience sustained interaction with people who are employed or with families that have a steady breadwinner. The result is that joblessness becomes a way oflife and takes on a different social meaning; the relationship...

...(Wacquant, 1995). As Wilson (1987:57) points out, in neighborhoods with high concentrations of poverty, "the chances are overwhelming that children will seldom...joblessness, as a way of life, takes on a different social and cultural meaning; even the relationship between schooling and postschool employment takes on a...

...engaging in criminal activity. As sociologist William Julius Wilson has noted, "In such neighborhoods the chances are overwhelming that children will seldom...who are employed or with families that have a steady breadwinner."32 Gangbangers and drug sellers are too often the most readily observable examples of...

...only increasingly relied on, they come to be seen as a way of life. . . Thus in such neighborhoods the chances are overwhelming that children will seldom...people who are employed or with families that have a sustained breadwinner. The net effect is that joblessness, as a way of life, takes on a different social...

...impediment to the traditional solutions proposed by society, particularly education. As he puts it, "The net effect is that joblessness, as a way of life, takes on a different social meaning. . . . The development of cognitive, linguistic, and other educational and job-related skills necessary for the...