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Jeffrey M. Timberlake - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect by Robert J. Sampson
Journal of Urban Affairs, 2013Co-Authors: Jeffrey M. TimberlakeAbstract:Robert J. Sampson, Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012).There is a scene in the film Crocodile Dundee in which a young hood...
Travis C. Pratt - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Great American City: Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect
Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 2013Co-Authors: Travis C. PrattAbstract:Sampson, Robert J. 2012. Great American City: Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN-13: 9780226734569. pp. 552, $27.50 cloth. Robert J. Sampson’s ...
Roberta Garner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Neighborhood as a social fact
2012Co-Authors: Roberta GarnerAbstract:Reviewed: Robert Sampson, Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect, The University of Chicago Press, 2012
Omar Pereyra - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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sampson robert 2012 Great American City chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect chicago y londres the university of chicago press
Debates en sociología; No. 38 (2013); 129-132, 2014Co-Authors: Omar PereyraAbstract:Hay mucho que decir sobre Great American City (GAC), pero empezare diciendo que este es uno de los libros mas importantes de sociologia urbana en lo que va del siglo. Creo que GAC, ademas de revisar muchos de los temas centrales de la sociologia urbana y de ser un libro innovador teorica y metodologicamente, nos invita a pensar estos y otros temas desde lo que Sampson llama una «sociologia contextual»1. Por las dimensiones de este proyecto y por las consecuencias de dicha propuesta, creo que GAC va a dar lugar a mucho que estudiar y discutir (sea a favor o en contra) en los proximos anos, tanto en sociologia urbana, en otras areas de la sociologia, en las politicas publicas y otras areas en donde el contexto deba ser tomado en serio. Una de las preguntas centrales de GAC es ver como y en que medida el barrio o contexto tiene efecto en la vida de los individuos2. Sampson muestra, a traves de una combinacion de metodos bastante sofisticados (analisis estadistico, espacial, de redes, experimentos en la calle y observacion sistematica) dos grandes procesos. Primero que las caracteristicas sociales del contexto moldean el sistema cultural
Robert J Sampson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Great American City chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect
2012Co-Authors: Robert J SampsonAbstract: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 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 weaken the power 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.
