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

LIBRA F548.3 .S26 2011
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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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