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From the ground up : translating geography into community through neighbor networks /

Where do neighborhoods come from and why do certain resources and effects--such as social capital and collective efficacy--bundle together in some neighborhoods and not in others? From the Ground Up argues that neighborhood communities emerge from neighbor networks, and shows that these social relat...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Grannis, Rick, 1965-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2009.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Neighborhoods and neighboring
  • The stages of neighboring
  • Reconceptualizing stage 1 neighboring
  • Reconceptualizing stage 1 neighbor networks
  • Selection and influence
  • Respondents, interviews, and other data
  • Selecting stage 1 neighbors
  • Unintentional encounters
  • Stage 3 neighbors and tertiary streets
  • The importance of neighbor networks
  • Network influence theory
  • Influence networks in a college town
  • Influence networks in a gang barrio
  • Implications.