Creating Networks for Survival and Mobility: Social Capital Among African-American and Latin-American Low-Income Mothers

Dómínguez, Silvia; Watkins, Celeste

doi:10.1525/sp.2003.50.1.111

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“…This research also supports existing literature that highlights how residentially segregated neighborhoods and the social organization shaped by them influenced the development of social ties necessary for Puerto Rican mothers to accumulate social capital in Springfield, MA in 2013 [2,4,34]. Interaction with individuals from a higher socioeconomic status can facilitate the transfer of more advantageous economic, political, and social resources and information [46,47]. SKA's positive association with percentages of Latinos in a mother's neighborhood suggested strong ties were being developed.…”

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“…Thus, labor market conditions could have a detrimental effect on these mothers' ability to accumulate social capital, but broader economic trends could also be shaping this outcome. For example, unemployment and the decreased access to SKA that it entails could also be related to a lack of child care when a mother's children were younger [46]. The absence of child care could have limited a mother's previous employment and development of job skills, making her a less qualified job candidate despite her now having less dependent care responsibility and more available time to work.…”

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Social Capital Accumulation among Puerto Rican Mothers in Urban Neighborhoods

Granberry

Torres

2017

Societies

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Abstract:Social capital provides access to material and personal resources through participation in social networks and other social structures. Social capital may not function equally for all populations, especially those living in residentially segregated urban neighborhoods with increased levels of poverty. This is because inequalities exist in social capital accumulation and are found where disadvantaged socioeconomic groups cluster. Using probabilistic household survey data consisting of 205 Puerto Rican mothers in Springfield, Massachusetts in 2013, this research tests hypotheses regarding the association of social capital accumulation with Puerto Rican mothers' individual, neighborhood, and social network characteristics. Logistic regression results suggested that Puerto Rican mothers who were employed and lived in neighborhoods with other Latinos were more likely to accumulate social capital. In addition, mothers who participated in activities of their children also had increased social capital accumulation. This neighborhood effect on social capital accumulation may promote bonding social capital but not bridging social capital among these Puerto Rican mothers.

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Social Capital Accumulation among Puerto Rican Mothers in Urban Neighborhoods

Granberry

Torres

2017

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“…47 In their ethnographic study of poor women, for example, Dominguez and Watkins found that those who received help during times of need often felt that the support came with "strings attached," in the form of an open-ended burden to return the help during better times. 21 This interpretation was illustrated by our comparisons of net and received social support where the effect sizes for received social support were uniformly larger than those for net social support. This suggests that failure to take account of unequal reciprocity, runs the risk of overestimating the stress-buffering effects of social networks.…”

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“…19,20 However, the general resource depletion of these communities may also mean that there are fewer resources to spread around. 21 Unequal reciprocity-an imbalance between giving and receiving social support-may be more common in low-income communities, and could constitute a source of stress in and of itself. [22][23][24] Health-related studies have not, however, directly measured reciprocity, 25,26 despite suggestions that it could matter for health.…”

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Reconsidering the Effects of Poverty and Social Support on Health: A 5-Year Longitudinal Test of the Stress-Buffering Hypothesis

2012

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Prior research in the general population has found that social support can buffer the adverse effects of stressors on health. However, both stressors and social support may be qualitatively different for those living in urban poverty. We examined the effects of social support and poverty-specific stressors on self-rated health. We used data from the Welfare Client Longitudinal Survey (WCLS), a 5-year longitudinal study of 718 public aid recipients. We measured received social support and "net social support," defined as the difference between support received and that given to others. We used restricted cubic splines to model the stress-buffering effects of social support on self-rated health as a function of stressful life events and neighborhood disorder. Increased exposure to stressors was associated with poorer self-rated health. Evidence of stress buffering was confined to those with the heaviest exposure to stressors, and its effects decreased across increasing levels of social support. Analyses using net social support had generally more modest effects than those using received social support. Social support does not buffer the effects of stressors on health uniformly for individuals living in conditions of urban poverty. Researchers and policymakers should be cautious in overestimating the beneficial effects that social support may have on health for marginalized populations.

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“…In other research with low-income, non-mentally ill, and non-substance abusing samples, service providers are often viewed by their clients as part of their social/friend network (Dominguez & Watkins, 2003), creating the possibility of generating positive bridging or linking social capital. But, if these relationships existed, they were fleeting among our sample.…”

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Disappearing acts: The social networks of formerly homeless individuals with co-occurring disorders

Hawkins

Abrams

2007

Social Science & Medicine

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Studies of the social lives of men and women living with co-occurring disorders (substance abuse and serious mental illness) suggest that social networks critically influence recovery. In this paper, we examine some of the reasons that the social networks of individuals with co-occurring disorders are small, and the impact of small networks for this population. Using a social capital framework with cross-case analysis, we analyze 72 in-depth qualitative interviews with 39 formerly homeless mentally ill men and women who were substance abusers. All were participants in the New York Services Study (HYSS), a federally funded study of mentally ill adults in New York City. The patterns suggest that networks shrunk because 1) social network members died prematurely, 2) study participants withdrew or pushed others away, and 3) friends and family members faced so many obstacles of their own that they could not provide resources for the study participants. We suggest that as networks diminished, some participants responded by attempting to rebuild their networks, even if the networks provided negative social capital, and others isolated themselves socially to escape the pressures and disappointments of interaction. KeywordsUSA; New York Services Study (NYSS); social capital; social networks; co-occurring disorders; mental illness; homeless; substance abuse The role of family and friends for individuals with co-occurring disorders (substance abuse and serious mental illness) in recovery is complex and often ambiguous. While close friends and family members can forge ties that produce social capital in the form of significant financial, emotional, and in-kind support to individuals with co-occurring disorders, they can also pose specific problems. Studies of the social lives of co-morbid individuals suggest that social support from family and friends can decrease symptomatology

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Creating Networks for Survival and Mobility: Social Capital Among African-American and Latin-American Low-Income Mothers

Abstract: In this article, we examine the social networks of low-income mothers, using a conceptual framework thatLow-income mothers residing in the inner city often have social networks that are localized, insular, and sometimes draining (Fischer

Cited by 414 publications

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Social Capital Accumulation among Puerto Rican Mothers in Urban Neighborhoods

Social Capital Accumulation among Puerto Rican Mothers in Urban Neighborhoods

Reconsidering the Effects of Poverty and Social Support on Health: A 5-Year Longitudinal Test of the Stress-Buffering Hypothesis

Disappearing acts: The social networks of formerly homeless individuals with co-occurring disorders

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