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Author:

Sampson, Robert J., 1956- 46807

Title:

Great American city : Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect / Robert J. Sampson ; [foreword by William Julius Wilson].

Edition:

Paperback ed.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2013, c2012

Description:

xviii, 534 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Neighborhoods--Chicago.--Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions.

Other Authors:

Wilson, William J., 1935- 46810

Notes:

Originally published: 2012. Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-524) and index.

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.

ISBN:

022605568X (pbk.)
9780226055688 (pbk.)

Locations:

GLAX641 -- Marshalltown Community College Library (Marshalltown)