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The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City

by Gerald D. Suttles
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780226781921
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press
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  • Pages: 266
  • Original Price: USD 33.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Revised
  • Item Weight: 363 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

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.

Suttles, Gerald D.: - Gerald D. Suttles (1932-2017) was an American urban sociologist. He was professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Chicago and adjunct professor of sociology at Indiana University. In 1993, the American Sociological Association awarded Suttles its Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Lifetime Achievement.

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