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.
4 有用 大鲵 2013-09-28 03:22:59
关于neighborhood effects比较新的书。1,neighborhood effects不是伪命题:全球化并没有消灭空间上的不平等,在一些地方反而加强之;贫困在空间上的聚集是贫困的复制机制之一;针对individual selection bias的批评,作者认为个人选择也是neighborhood effects的一部分。2,试图将个人选择、neighborhood以及更大的结构性因... 关于neighborhood effects比较新的书。1,neighborhood effects不是伪命题:全球化并没有消灭空间上的不平等,在一些地方反而加强之;贫困在空间上的聚集是贫困的复制机制之一;针对individual selection bias的批评,作者认为个人选择也是neighborhood effects的一部分。2,试图将个人选择、neighborhood以及更大的结构性因素统合在同一个分析框架下。3,shared expectations on social control 和trust是社区层面neighborhood effects不断复制的机制,可以通过社区民间组织改善。4,批评了贫困研究的“个人化”倾向,穷人的应对机制并非无穷无尽,而是受结构制约的。 (展开)
1 有用 羊肉烤黄皮子 2016-06-03 10:32:21
离开芝加哥了,纪念一下
0 有用 Eudaimonia 2015-12-13 10:50:15
两年前粗读,oral前又挑重点段落重读了,虽然Sampson这本书好评如潮,也的确深入了对于之前blame the victim贫穷理论的批判。但是他的论点从某种程度上来说也很confusing,尤其是以Neighborhood作为Unit analysis之后又提到各种spatial logic,却没有解释social institutions在这个问题上的作用,没有提到disinvestmen... 两年前粗读,oral前又挑重点段落重读了,虽然Sampson这本书好评如潮,也的确深入了对于之前blame the victim贫穷理论的批判。但是他的论点从某种程度上来说也很confusing,尤其是以Neighborhood作为Unit analysis之后又提到各种spatial logic,却没有解释social institutions在这个问题上的作用,没有提到disinvestment的影响。 (展开)
0 有用 dawamesk 2018-06-19 09:17:43
first seven chapters...
0 有用 纹样苏 2015-04-08 10:13:13
quoting Dr. Akerlof: After Great American City we will never be able to view cities in the same way again.
0 有用 NowhereToYura 2021-06-28 14:51:28
几乎是neighborhood research的百科全书
0 有用 AssertionError 2018-10-27 22:05:56
……这书真难读。可能原因是我对城社实在无感
0 有用 dawamesk 2018-06-19 09:17:43
first seven chapters...
0 有用 hao子 2017-05-20 10:08:56
这本书目前有翻译么 在中国 英语不好 很想读。。。
0 有用 ca7thy 2017-02-28 12:00:12
全班一致好评 这门课目前最喜欢的书 所以花了一天多的时间 读太细 data collection惊人 wish I could be part of that project 个人也不认为这本书deterministic 毕竟如果有structural intervention还是可以有所改变的 只是这一点在美国比较困难就是了。。在国内还是比较可行的 总之灰常喜欢 赞赞赞!