Villa Victoria : the transformation of social capital in a Boston barrio /

For decades now, scholars and politicians alike have argued that the concentration of poverty in city housing projects would produce distrust, alienation, apathy, and social isolation--the disappearance of what sociologists call social capital. But relatively few have examined precisely how such pov...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Small, Mario Luis
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : University Of Chicago Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
Social capital (Sociology) > Massachusetts > Boston.
Social participation > Massachusetts > Boston.
Social ecology > Massachusetts > Boston.
Poor > Social networks > Massachusetts > Boston.
Puerto Ricans > Massachusetts > Boston > Social conditions.
Capital social (Sociologie) > Massachusetts > Boston.
Participation sociale > Massachusetts > Boston.
Écologie sociale > Massachusetts > Boston.
Pauvres > Réseaux sociaux > Massachusetts > Boston.
Portoricains > Massachusetts > Boston > Conditions sociales.
SELF-HELP > Personal Growth > Success.
Puerto Ricans > Social conditions
Social capital (Sociology)
Social conditions
Social ecology
Social participation
Partizipation
Puerto Ricaner
Soziale Situation
Soziales Kapital
Sozialökologie
Groepsbinding.
Armoede.
Getto's.
Puertoricanen.
Socialt kapital.
Social integration.
Socialt samspel.
Socialekologi.
Fattiga.
Puertoricaner.
South End (Boston, Mass.) > Social conditions.
Massachusetts > Boston
Massachusetts > Boston > South End
Boston, Mass.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • How does neighborhood poverty affect social capital?
  • Villa Victoria and Boston's South End
  • The rise and decline of local participation, part 1 : social organization theory
  • The rise and decline of local participation, part 2 : cohorts and collective narratives
  • The ecology of group differentiation
  • Social capital and the spatialization of resources
  • A labyrinth of loyalties
  • Social capital in poor neighborhoods.

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