Explain how the Project on Human Development in Chicago ...

[maychende]

Explain how the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods is organized.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Explain Cloward and Ohlins opportunity theory.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[bob]

Answer to Question 1

The answer should include the following points:

• interdisciplinary study of how families, schools, and neighborhoods affect child and adolescent developmentlaunched in the mid-1990s


• the projects data is made available through the University of Michigans Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research


• study combined a longitudinal study of youths and a neighborhood study


• data collection based on four separate componentscommunity survey, systematic social observation, longitudinal cohort study, and infant assessment unit

Answer to Question 2

The answer should include the following points:

• concept of success and status as separate strivings that can operate independently of each other


• portrayal of delinquents who seek an increase in status as striving for membership in the middle classother delinquent youths try to improve their economic position without changing their class position


• youths may have no legitimate opportunities to improve their economic position, leading to involvement in one of three specialized gang subcultures: criminal, conflict, or retreatist

[maychende]

Both answers were spot on, thank you once again

[bob]

Great! Please up vote