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Great American City (Paperback)
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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
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.
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