While he did the research for this book, Gerald Suttles lived for
almost three years in the high-delinquency area around Hull House
on Chicago's New West Side. He came to know it intimately and was
welcomed by its residents, who are Italian, Mexican, Puerto Rican,
and Negro. Suttles contends that the residents of a slum
neighborhood have a set of standards for behavior that take
precedence over the more widely held "moral standards" of
"straight" society. These standards arise out of the specific
experience of each locality, are peculiar to it, and largely
determine how the neighborhood people act. One of the tasks of
urban sociology, according to Suttles, is to explore why and how
slum communities provide their inhabitants with these local norms.
"The Social Order of the Slum" is the record of such an
exploration, and it defines theoretical principles and concepts
that will aid in subsequent research.
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