| A Place on the Corner Contributor(s): Anderson, Elijah (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226019594 ISBN-13: 9780226019598 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $32.67 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2003 Annotation: "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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness - Social Science | Social Classes & Economic Disparity |
| Dewey: 302.34 |
| LCCN: 2003048351 |
| Series: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.52" W x 8.46" (0.73 lbs) 271 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Illinois - Locality - Chicago, Illinois |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Anderson, Elijah: - Elijah Anderson is the William K. Lanman Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Yale Urban Ethnography Project at Yale University. 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. |