Overview
Touches on topics such as social/class stratification, sociology of work, entrepreneurship studies, inequality studies, legal capital, social capital, and immigration studies that affect a variety of disciplines
Presents fascinating case studies from 20 latino/a communities in Los Angeles
Explores explanations for different business outcomes from a variety of angles, including inter-generational knowledge transmission, social capital, legal capital, neighborhood wealth, and previous business knowledge
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Table of contents(7 chapters)
Keywords
- Entrepreneurship
- Small business
- emmigration
- immigration
- Mexican-American
- stratification
- Neighborhoods
- Stratification theory
- social capital
- Neighborhood poverty
- Class divide
- Los Angeles
- Immigration business
- Business outcomes
- Upward mobility
- inter-generational knowledge
- inter-generational mobility
- Pierre Bourdieu
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Sociology Department, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Dolores Trevizo
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Economics Department, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Mary Lopez
About the authors
Mary Lopez is Associate Professor of Economics at Occidental College, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neighborhood Poverty and Segregation in the (Re-)Production of Disadvantage
Book Subtitle: Mexican Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Los Angeles
Authors: Dolores Trevizo, Mary Lopez
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73715-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73714-0Published: 15 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08841-5Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73715-7Published: 31 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 211
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology of Racism, Ethnicity Studies, Latin American Culture