Code of the Street

Elijah Anderson holds the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professorship in Sociology at Yale University, where he teaches and directs the Urban Ethnography Project. His most prominent works include "The Cosmopolitan Canopy" and the award-winning books "Code of the Street" and "Streetwise". 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.

出版者:W. W. Norton & Company

作者:Elijah Anderson

页数:352

出版时间:2000-9-17

价格:USD 17.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780393320787

图书标签:社会学美国社会黑人费城犯罪学society社会观察社会学观察

Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence; in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. How you dress, talk, and behave can have life-or-death consequences, with young people particularly at risk.The most powerful force counteracting this code and its reign of terror is the strong, loving, decent family, and we meet many heroic figures in the course of this narrative. Unfortunately, the culture of the street thrives and often defeats decency because it controls public spaces, so that individuals with higher, better aspirations are often entangled in the code and its self-destructive behaviors.Writing in the tradition of Jane Jacobs and William Julius Wilson, the author delineates the true workings of city streets. His most interesting characters are not the bullies and dealers, but the decent folks, young and old, who through entrepreneurship and creative self-help strategies are forging a viable alternative, an escape from the code of the street.Winner of the Komarovsky Book Award, this incisive book examines the code as a response to the lack of jobs that pay a living wage, to the stigma of race, to rampant drug use, to alienation and lack of hope. An individual's safety and sense of worth are determined by the respect he commands in public--a deference frequently based on an implied threat of violence. Unfortunately, even those with higher aspirations can often become entangled in the code's self-destructive behaviors.

用户评价

并不奇怪. 我倒觉得deindustrialization是post-industrialization.

simple language for a deep topic. it is all about code-switching.

并不奇怪. 我倒觉得deindustrialization是post-industrialization.

simple language for a deep topic. it is all about code-switching.

这是一本街头社会分析的必读，虽然预设明显和结构松散