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Great American city : Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect

Title
Great American city : Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect / Robert J. Sampson.
Author
Sampson, Robert J.
Publication
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.

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Description
xviii, 534 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references 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.
Call Number
IVF (Chicago) 12-2702
ISBN
  • 9780226734569 (cloth)
  • 0226734560 (cloth)
  • 9780226733869 (cloth)
  • 0226733866 (paper)
LCCN
2011029350
OCLC
YBP 2011029350
Author
Sampson, Robert J.
Title
Great American city : Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect / Robert J. Sampson.
Imprint
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
IVF (Chicago) 12-2702
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