Social Order of the Slum Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City

Name: Social Order of the Slum Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City
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ISBN: 9780226781921

ISBN-10: 0226781925

ISBN-13: 9780226781921

Edition: 1970 (Reprint)

Authors: Gerald D. Suttles

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While he did the research for this book, Gerald Suttles lived for almost three years in the high-delinquency area around Hull House on Chicago's New West Side. He came to know it intimately and was welcomed by its residents, who are Italian, Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Negro. Suttles contends that the residents of a slum neighborhood have a set of standards for behavior that take precedence over the more widely held "moral standards" of "straight" society. These standards arise out of the specific experience of each locality, are peculiar to it, and largely determine how the neighborhood people act. One of the tasks of urban sociology, according to Suttles, is to explore why and how slum…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1970
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/15/1970
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 266
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Figures Maps Tables



Territoriality and Ordered Segmentation



Slum Neighborhood The Provincial Morality of Slum Neighborhoods Slum Neighborhoods as Culture-Building Worlds The Addams Area



The Ecological Basis of Ordered Segmentation Geographic Setting History and Background Conditions During the Present Study: 1962-65 The Public View The Local View The Order of Segmentation The Ecological Basis for the Corporate Unity of the Addams Area



Institutions and Patterns of Communication



Institutional Arrangements Religion Commercial Engines Recreation Education



Communicative Devices Language Gestures Clothing, Grooming, and Personal Display



Communical Channels Street Life Business Establishment Groups Institutionalized Segregation of Sex and Age Groups The Congestion of Domestic Life Historical and Universal Social Environments



Ethnic Solidarity



The Park and the Italians The Spirit ofOmerta The Ethics of "Natural Man" Reformulations of Cultural Traditions Named Groups Cross-Sex Relations The Barracudas and the Park The Incognitos and the Pica People The Basis of Adult Power



The Projects and the Negroes The Heritage of Political Arrangements Style of Life Mixed Blessings Named Groups



The Puerto Ricans and the Mexicans Polk and Laflin: The Mexicans Harrison Street: The Puerto Ricans



The Boys' World



The Composition of Local Street Corner Groups Sex Size Age Ethnicity Residence Conclusion



Primary Groups and Personal Identities Norms and Uniformity of Behavior Personal Identities Pattern of Cohesion



The Boys' World and the Wider Society Rumors and Rumbles:Tragetore Encounters with the Police Victims and Complainants Changes Through Time



The Meaning of Morality



Practicality and Morality Provincialism Ordered Segmentation Conflict and Order The Extension of Face-to-Face Relations Reality and Morality


Sources of Instability and Change


Bibliography


Index