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.
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The studies done in this book would be more difficult and dangerous to duplicate today. The authors lived in a low-income neighborhood in the 1960's and were able to closely observe community and gang behavior; they have many good insights into the nature of social relationships. If they tried the same study today, the people in the "slum" would first want to negotiate the movie rights!
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The Addams area is one of the oldest slums in Chicago and researchers have invaded it almost as often as new minority groups. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
own ethnic section, adolescent street corner groups, arrests for these offenses, ordered segmentation, residential unity, ethnic sections, recreational establishment, slum residents, ethnic products, territorial groupings, street workers, slum community, youth officers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Puerto Ricans, West Side, Eighteenth Street, Taylor Street, Gutter Guys, New York, Magnificent Gallants, Roosevelt Road, Free Press, Harrison Street, Red Ambers, University of Chicago Press, Sheridan Park, Pica People, University of Illinois, Van Buren, Jew Town, Midget Gallants, First Ward, Village Deacons, Chicago Youth Development Project, Peanut Park, Roman Dukes, Hispanic Caballeros, Our Lady of Provins New!
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The Addams area is one of the oldest slums in Chicago and researchers have invaded it almost as often as new minority groups. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
own ethnic section, adolescent street corner groups, arrests for these offenses, ordered segmentation, residential unity, ethnic sections, recreational establishment, slum residents, ethnic products, territorial groupings, street workers, slum community, youth officers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Puerto Ricans, West Side, Eighteenth Street, Taylor Street, Gutter Guys, New York, Magnificent Gallants, Roosevelt Road, Free Press, Harrison Street, Red Ambers, University of Chicago Press, Sheridan Park, Pica People, University of Illinois, Van Buren, Jew Town, Midget Gallants, First Ward, Village Deacons, Chicago Youth Development Project, Peanut Park, Roman Dukes, Hispanic Caballeros, Our Lady of Provins New!
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