Great American city
Subtitle: Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect
By: Robert J. Sampson
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226733869
Subjects: Social conditions; Neighborhoods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: label: Part 1
title: Setting and thesis; title: Placed; title: Neighborhood effects: the evolution of an idea; label: Part 2
title: Principles and method; title: Analytic approach; title: The making of the Chicago project; label: Part 3
title: Community-level processes; title: Legacies of inequality; title: "Broken windows" and the meanings of disorder; title: The theory of collective efficacy; title: Civic society and the organizational imperative; title: Social altruism, cynicism, and the "good community"; label: Part 4
title: Interlocking structures; title: Spatial logic; or, why neighbors of neighborhoods matter; title: Trading places: experiments and neighborhood effects in a social world; title: Individual selection as a social process; title: Network mechanisms of interneighborhood migration; title: Leadership and the higher-order structure of elite connections; label: Part 5
title: Synthesis and revisit; title: Neighborhood effects and a theory of context; title: Aftermath: Chicago 2010; title: The twenty-first-century Gold Coast and slum.