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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 poverty affects social capital or have considered for what reasons living in a poor neighborhood results in such undesirable effects. This book examines a neglected Puerto Rican enclave in Boston to consider the pros and cons of social scientific thinking about the true nature of ghettos in America. Mario Luis Small dismantles the theory that poor urban neighborhoods are inevitably deprived of social capital. He shows that the conditions specified in this theory are vaguely defined and variable among poor communities. According to Small, structural conditions such as unemployment or a failed system of familial relations must be acknowledged as affecting the urban poor, but individual motivations and the importance of timing must be considered as well. Brimming with fresh theoretical insights, Villa Victoria is an elegant work of sociology that will be essential to students of urban poverty.
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HISTORY By the first quarter of the nineteenth century, rapid demographic and economic transformations attracted waves of Irish and Italian immigrants. The city’s traditional and merchant elites were inclined to migrate to the outskirts. It soon became app...
评分HISTORY By the first quarter of the nineteenth century, rapid demographic and economic transformations attracted waves of Irish and Italian immigrants. The city’s traditional and merchant elites were inclined to migrate to the outskirts. It soon became app...
评分HISTORY By the first quarter of the nineteenth century, rapid demographic and economic transformations attracted waves of Irish and Italian immigrants. The city’s traditional and merchant elites were inclined to migrate to the outskirts. It soon became app...
评分HISTORY By the first quarter of the nineteenth century, rapid demographic and economic transformations attracted waves of Irish and Italian immigrants. The city’s traditional and merchant elites were inclined to migrate to the outskirts. It soon became app...
评分HISTORY By the first quarter of the nineteenth century, rapid demographic and economic transformations attracted waves of Irish and Italian immigrants. The city’s traditional and merchant elites were inclined to migrate to the outskirts. It soon became app...
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