SKOLKOVO School of Management

Sampson, Robert J., 1956-

Great American city : Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect / Robert J. Sampson. - xviii, 534 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Originally published: c2012.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-524) 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.

9780226055688 022605568X

GBB2B9297 bnb

016218854 Uk


Neighborhoods--Illinois--Chicago.


Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions.

F548.3 / .S26 2013

977.311