Main entry:

Sampson, Robert J., 1956-

Title & Author:

Great American city : Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect / Robert J. Sampson.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Description:

xviii, 534 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
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.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

To demonstrate the powerfully enduring effect of place, this text reviews a decade of research in Chicago, to demonstrate how neighborhoods influence social phenomena, including crime, health, civic engagement & altruism.

ISBN:

9780226734569 (cloth)
0226734560 (cloth)
9780226733869 (cloth)
0226733866 (paper)

Subject:

Neighborhoods Illinois Chicago.
History.
Neighborhoods.
Social conditions.
Bostadsområden sociala förhållanden Förenta staterna Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions.
Illinois Chicago.

Form/genre:

Statistics.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277874
Call No.: BIB 212977
Copy: hbk.
Status: Available