Great American city : Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect / Robert J. Sampson.

Author
Sampson, Robert J., 1956- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, ©2012.
Description
xviii, 534 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

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      Summary note
      To demonstrate the powerfully enduring effect of place, this text reviews a decade of research in Chicago, to demonstrate how neighborhoods influence social phenomena, including crime, health, civic engagement & altruism.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
      Contents
      • Part I: Setting and thesis. Placed ; Neighborhood effects: the evolution of an idea
      • Part II: Principles and method. Analytic approach ; The making of the Chicago project
      • Part III: Community-level processes. Legacies of inequality ; "Broken windows" and the meanings of disorder ; The theory of collective efficacy ; Civic society and the organizational imperative ; Social altruism, cynicism, and the "good community"
      • Part IV: Interlocking structures. Spatial logic; or, why neighbors of neighborhoods matter ; Trading places: experiments and neighborhood effects in a social world ; Individual selection as a social process ; Network mechanisms of interneighborhood migration ; Leadership and the higher-order structure of elite connections
      • Part V: Synthesis and revisit. Neighborhood effects and a theory of context ; Aftermath: Chicago 2010 ; The twenty-first-century Gold Coast and slum.
      ISBN
      • 9780226734569 ((cloth))
      • 0226734560 ((paper))
      • 9780226733869 ((cloth))
      • 0226733866 ((paper))
      • 022605568X ((pbk.))
      • 9780226055688 ((pbk.))
      LCCN
      2011029350
      OCLC
      711050873
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