"Anderson's mix of the language of sociology and the more colorful street idiom makes a complex social phenomenon accessible to a broad audience. . . . An important work."—Gerald Lee Dillingham, Contemporary Sociology
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"Anderson is the consummate participant-observer..."—William Foote Whyte, author of Street Corner Society
This paperback edition of A Place on the Corner marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Elijah Anderson's sociological classic, a study of street corner life at a local barroom/liquor store located in the ghetto on Chicago's South Side. Anderson returned night after night, month after month, to gain a deeper understanding of the people he met, vividly depicting how they created - and recreated - their local stratification system. In addition, Anderson introduces key sociological concepts, including "the extended primary group" and "being down." The new preface and appendix in this edition expand on Anderson's original work, telling the intriguing story of how he went about his field work among the men who frequented Jelly's corner.
This paperback edition of A Place on the Corner marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Elijah Anderson's sociological classic, a study of street corner life at a local barroom/liquor store located in the ghetto on Chicago's South Side. Anderson returned night after night, month after month, to gain a deeper understanding of the people he met, vividly depicting how they created - and recreated - their local stratification system. In addition, Anderson introduces key sociological concepts, including "the extended primary group" and "being down." The new preface and appendix in this edition expand on Anderson's original work, telling the intriguing story of how he went about his field work among the men who frequented Jelly's corner.
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Elijah Anderson is the Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences, professor of sociology, and director of the Philadelphia ethnography project at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Code of the Street and Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.
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ELIJAH ANDERSON holds the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professorship in Sociology at Yale University, where he teaches and directs the Urban Ethnography Project. His prominent works include the award-winning books "Code of the Street" and "Streetwise," and 2011's "The Cosmopolitan Canopy." His writings have also appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and the New York Times Book Review. He lives in New Haven and Philadelphia.
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Excellent portrayal of an urban community,
This review is from: A Place on the Corner, Second Edition (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries) (Paperback)
According to Anderson in every community there is an understanding and acceptance with conditions. The individuals meet and commune without crossing the boundaries of each other's territory. The process of social exchange allows them to produce a social order. This is also reflected in urbanization and urban society where groups form extended family to associate their identity with. This sheds light to a lifestyle that some had adapted to and some are quick to frown on.
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Urban taverns and bars, like barbershops, carry-outs, and other such establishments, with their adjacent street corners and alleys, serve as important gathering places for people of the "urban villages" and ghetto areas of the city. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
extended primary group, hoodlum conduct, barroom side, known personal biography, many hoodlums, other hoodlums, certain group members, wolf tickets, informal rights, status arrangements, social regard, social stake Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pee Wee, Red Mack, South Side, The Homey, Jimmy Lee, Old Forester, University of Chicago, Jim Beam, One Saturday, United States, World War New!
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Urban taverns and bars, like barbershops, carry-outs, and other such establishments, with their adjacent street corners and alleys, serve as important gathering places for people of the "urban villages" and ghetto areas of the city. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
extended primary group, hoodlum conduct, barroom side, known personal biography, many hoodlums, other hoodlums, certain group members, wolf tickets, informal rights, status arrangements, social regard, social stake Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pee Wee, Red Mack, South Side, The Homey, Jimmy Lee, Old Forester, University of Chicago, Jim Beam, One Saturday, United States, World War New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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