The Taming of New York's Washington Square : A Wild Civility /

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"With rich and detailed observations as well as in-depth interviews, Goode demonstrates how onlookers, bystanders, and witnesses--both denizens and your average casual park visitor--provide an effective system of social control, keeping more serious wrongdoing in check. Goode also profiles the...

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Main Author: Goode, Erich (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social control.
Social conditions.
Manners and customs.
Deviant behavior.
City and town life.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Contrôle social > New York (État) > New York.
Vie urbaine > New York (État) > New York.
Deviant behavior > New York (State) > New York.
Social control > New York (State) > New York.
City and town life > New York (State) > New York.
New York (State) > New York > Washington Square.
New York (State) > New York.
New York (N.Y.) > Moeurs et coutumes > 21e siecle.
New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions > 21st century.
New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 21st century.
Washington Square (New York, N.Y.)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The people in the square
  • Public space
  • Defining deviance
  • Social control
  • Race
  • Sex and gender in public
  • The heterotopia.

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