Great American city : Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sampson, Robert J., 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Table of 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.