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9780226734569

Great American City

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  • ISBN13:

    9780226734569

  • ISBN10:

    0226734560

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-02-15
  • Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

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Summary

For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories place us at the mercy of global forces beyond our control. These two perspectives dominate contemporary views of society, but by rejecting the importance of place they are both deeply flawed. Based on one of the most ambitious studies in the history of social science, Great American Cityargues that communities still matter because life is decisively shaped by where you live. To demonstrate the powerfully enduring impact of place, Robert J. Sampson presents here the fruits of over a decade's research in Chicago combined with his own unique personal observations about life in the city, from Cabrini Green to Trump Tower and Millennium Park to the Robert Taylor Homes. He discovers that neighborhoods influence a remarkably wide variety of social phenomena, including crime, health, civic engagement, home foreclosures, teen births, altruism, leadership networks, and immigration. Even national crises cannot halt the impact of place, Sampson finds, as he analyzes the consequences of the Great Recession and its aftermath, bringing his magisterial study up to the fall of 2010. Following in the influential tradition of the Chicago School of urban studies but updated for the twenty-first century, Great American Cityis at once a landmark research project, a commanding argument for a new theory of social life, and the story of an iconic city.

Table of Contents

Forewordp. vii
Acknowledgmentsp. xv
Setting and Thesis
Placedp. 3
Neighborhood Effects: The Evolution of an Ideap. 31
Principles and Method
Analytic Approachp. 53
The Making of the Chicago Projectp. 71
Community-Level Processes
Legacies of Inequalityp. 97
"Broken Windows" and the Meanings of Disorderp. 121
The Theory of Collective Efficacyp. 149
Civic Society and the Organizational Imperativep. 179
Social Altruism, Cynicism, and the "Good Community"p. 210
Interlocking Structures
Spatial Logic; or, Why Neighbors of Neighborhoods Matterp. 237
Trading Places: Experiments and Neighborhood Effects in a Social Worldp. 261
Individual Selection as a Social Processp. 287
Network Mechanisms of Interneighborhood Migrationp. 309
Leadership and the Higher-Order Structure of Elite Connectionsp. 329
Synthesis and Revisit
Neighborhood Effects and a Theory of Contextp. 355
Aftermath-Chicago 2010p. 386
The Twenty-First-Century Gold Coast and Slump. 414
Notesp. 427
Referencesp. 493
Indexp. 525
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