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

Sampson, Robert J.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2013, c2012.
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Notes:

  • Originally published: 2012.
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • 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.

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