Great American City Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect

Name: Great American City Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect
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ISBN: 9780226055688

ISBN-10: 022605568X

ISBN-13: 9780226055688

Edition: 2012

Authors: Robert J. Sampson

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For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories place us at the mercy of global forces beyond our control. These two perspectives dominate contemporary views of society, but by rejecting the importance of place they are both deeply flawed. Based on one of the most ambitious studies in the history of social science,Great American Cityargues that communities still matter because life is decisively shaped by where you live. To demonstrate the powerfully enduring impact of place, Robert J. Sampson…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/14/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 552
Size: 5.98" wide x 7.99" long x 1.42" tall
Weight: 1.628

Robert J. Sampson is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Harvard University.



Foreword


Acknowledgments



Setting and Thesis



Placed



Neighborhood Effects: The Evolution of an Idea



Principles and Method



Analytic Approach



The Making of the Chicago Project



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"



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



Synthesis and Revisit



Neighborhood Effects and a Theory of Context



Aftermath-Chicago 2010



The Twenty-First-Century Gold Coast and Slum


Notes


References


Index