Main entry:

Suttles, Gerald D.

Title & Author:

The social order of the slum : ethnicity and territory in the inner city / [by] Gerald D. Suttles. Preface by Morris Janowitz.

Publication:

Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1968]

Description:

xxii, 243 pages illustrations 24 cm

Series:

Studies of urban society

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-238).
Part 1. Territoriality and ordered segmentation -- 1. Slum neighborhoods -- The provincial morality of slum neighborhoods -- Slum neighborhoods as culture-building worlds -- The Addams area -- 2. The ecological basis of ordered segmentation -- Geographic setting -- History and background -- Conditions during the present study: 1962-1965 -- The public view -- The local view -- The order of segmentation -- The ecological basis for the corporate unity of the Addams area -- Part 2. Institutions and patterns of communication -- 3. Institutional arrangements -- Religion -- Commercial exchanges -- Recreation -- Education -- 4. Communicative devices -- Language -- Gestures -- Clothing, grooming, and personal display -- 5. Communication channels -- Street life -- Business establishment groups -- Institutional segregation of sex and age groups -- The congestion of domestic life -- Historical and universal social environments -- Part 3. Ethnic solidarity -- 6. The park and the Italians -- The spirit of Omerta -- The ethics of "natural man" -- Reformulations of cultural traditions -- Named groups -- Cross-sex relations -- The Barracudas and the park -- The Incognitos and the Pica people -- The basis of adult power -- 7. The projects and the Negroes -- The heritage of political arrangements -- Style of life -- Mixed blessings -- Named groups -- 8. The Puerto Ricans and the Mexicans -- Polk and Laflin: The Mexicans -- Harrison Street: The Puerto Ricans -- Part 4. The boy's world -- 9. The composition of local street corner groups -- Sex -- Size -- Age -- Ethnicity -- Residence -- Conclusion -- 10. Primary groups and personal identities -- Norms and uniformity of behavior -- Personal identities -- Pattern of cohesion -- 11. The boys' world and the wider society -- Rumors and rumbles: Tragetore -- Encounters with the police -- Victims and complainants -- Changes through time -- Part 5. The meaning of morality -- 12. Practicality and morality -- Provincialism -- Ordered segmentation -- Conflict and order -- The extension of face-to-face relations -- Reality and morality -- Sources of instability and change -- Bibliography -- Index.
Society for the Study of Social Problems C. Wright Mills Award, 1968.
Library copy: ownership stamp of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government Library.

ISBN:

0226781917
9780226781914
0226781925
9780226781921

Subject:

Inner cities Illinois Chicago.
Slums Illinois Chicago.
Poor Illinois Chicago.
Minorities Illinois Chicago.
Minorities.
Poverty.
Poverty Areas
Minority Groups
Taudis Chicago, Ill.
Pauvres Illinois Chicago.
Minorités Chicago, Ill.
Minorités.
Pauvreté.
minorities.
poverty.
Inner cities
Poor
Slums
Social conditions
Slum
Soziologie
Achterbuurten.
Etnische betrekkingen.
Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions.
Chicago
Chicago social conditions
Chicago (Ill.) Conditions sociales.
Illinois Chicago

Added entries:

Janowitz, Morris, writer of preface.
Provenance. Great Britain. Ministry of Housing and Local Government. Library.
Studies of urban society.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 135851
Call No.: HN80.C5.S97 (ID:97-B855)
Status: Available