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Examining the Effects of Federal Urban Policy Through Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Self-Efficacy

Blackwood, Andria L.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1542133837522133

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2018, PHD, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Geography.
Since the 1960’s to the present, there has been a radical shift in public policy and how our society views the poor. Discourse centered on poverty and its causes has moved from the acknowledgment of structural barriers and empathy for the underprivileged to a belief in the dysfunction of government programs and the pervasiveness of welfare cheats intent on gaming the system (Zucchino 1997). This shift in narrative has coincided with a rise in poverty within metropolitan areas and an increase in geographic isolation of black and brown people in neighborhoods of heightened deprivation (Wilson 1986; Massey and Denton 1993). Calls for the poor to `pull themselves up by their own bootstraps’ have been increasingly prevalent, with a neoliberal turn in ideology moving the burden of poverty from government mandate to individual responsibility (Soss et al. 2013). But what exactly are `bootstraps’? This dissertation uses the concept of self-efficacy as a measure of individuals’ `bootstraps’ to explore the relationship between neighborhood resources and residents’ feelings of efficacy in successfully addressing the salient issues that impact their lives.
David Kaplan, PhD (Advisor)
290 p.
Geography
Neighborhood Effects, Self-Efficacy, Community Capacity, Urban Studies

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  • Blackwood, A. L. (2018). Examining the Effects of Federal Urban Policy Through Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Self-Efficacy [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1542133837522133

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Blackwood, Andria. Examining the Effects of Federal Urban Policy Through Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Self-Efficacy . 2018. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1542133837522133.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Blackwood, Andria. "Examining the Effects of Federal Urban Policy Through Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Self-Efficacy ." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1542133837522133

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