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Great American city : Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect / Robert J. Sampson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sampson, Robert J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neighborhoods.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Neighborhoods--Illinois--Chicago.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 534 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- 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:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226734569
- 0226734560
- 9780226733869
- 0226733866
- OCLC:
- 711050873
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