{"title":"The Coupled Dynamics of Neighborhood and School Change.","authors":"Elly Field, Elizabeth Bruch","doi":"10.1086/740798","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A large body of research investigates the dynamics of racial segregation in schools and neighborhoods, typically treating them as separate contexts. These studies offer insight into local patterns of demographic change but rarely consider how neighborhoods and schools evolve together. Yet, in the United States, the two are structurally intertwined: Residence-based school assignment policies mean that choosing where to live is often a choice about children's schools. We develop a framework for studying coupled changes in neighborhoods and schools that articulates how choices and opportunities in both domains imply different degrees of linkage. From this, we derive a model of coupled tipping that generates testable predictions about how demographic change begins and how neighborhood and school composition relate over time. We evaluate these predictions using original longitudinal data from 14 large US school districts from 1990-2010. Our findings support our model and deepen understanding of segregation dynamics in urban areas.</p>","PeriodicalId":7658,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Sociology","volume":"131 6","pages":"1314-1344"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3000,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13354489/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"American Journal of Sociology","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/740798","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"SOCIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A large body of research investigates the dynamics of racial segregation in schools and neighborhoods, typically treating them as separate contexts. These studies offer insight into local patterns of demographic change but rarely consider how neighborhoods and schools evolve together. Yet, in the United States, the two are structurally intertwined: Residence-based school assignment policies mean that choosing where to live is often a choice about children's schools. We develop a framework for studying coupled changes in neighborhoods and schools that articulates how choices and opportunities in both domains imply different degrees of linkage. From this, we derive a model of coupled tipping that generates testable predictions about how demographic change begins and how neighborhood and school composition relate over time. We evaluate these predictions using original longitudinal data from 14 large US school districts from 1990-2010. Our findings support our model and deepen understanding of segregation dynamics in urban areas.
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Established in 1895 as the first US scholarly journal in its field, the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) presents pathbreaking work from all areas of sociology, with an emphasis on theory building and innovative methods. AJS strives to speak to the general sociology reader and is open to contributions from across the social sciences—sociology, political science, economics, history, anthropology, and statistics—that seriously engage the sociological literature to forge new ways of understanding the social. AJS offers a substantial book review section that identifies the most salient work of both emerging and enduring scholars of social science. Commissioned review essays appear occasionally, offering readers a comparative, in-depth examination of prominent titles. Although AJS publishes a very small percentage of the papers submitted to it, a double-blind review process is available to all qualified submissions, making the journal a center for exchange and debate "behind" the printed page and contributing to the robustness of social science research in general.
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