Great American city : Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect /

Great American city : Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect /

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Author / Creator:	Sampson, Robert J., 1956- author.
Imprint:	Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 534 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Neighborhoods -- Illinois -- Chicago. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) Neighborhoods. Social conditions 15.85 history of America. 71.14 urban society. 71.12 social stratification, social mobility. Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions. Illinois -- Chicago. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11361163

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Other authors / contributors:	Wilson, William J., 1935- writer of foreword.
ISBN:	9780226733883 0226733882 9780226734569 0226734560 9780226055688 022605568X 9780226733869 0226733866
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-524) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2020. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Online resource; title from e-book title screen (ProQuest ebrary platform, viewed July 14, 2016).
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 City argues that communities still matter because life 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 City is at once a landmark research project, a commanding argument for a new theory of social life, and the story of an iconic city."--Provided by publisher.
Other form:	Print version: Sampson, Robert J. Great American city. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011 9780226734569 9780226733869