A Place on the Corner

252 Pages·1981·29.467 MB·English

by  Elijah Anderson

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A Place on the Corner
Studies ofUrban Society Robert McKenzie and Allan Silver,
Angels in Marble
David Popenoe, The Suburban
Other books in this series
Environment
Michael Crozier, The World of the Gerald D. Suttles, The Social
Office Worker Construction of Communities
Albert Hunter, Symbolic Gerald D. Suttles, The Social
Communities Order of the Slum
William Kornblum, Blue Collar Mayer N. Zald, Organizational
Community Change
Anderson
Elijah
A Place on the Corner
The University of Chicago Press
Chicago and London
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ELIJAH ANDERSON is assistant professor of
sociology and education at the University
of Pennsylvania.
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
© 1976, 1978 by The University of Chicago
All rights reserved. Published 1978
Printed in the United States of America
82 81 80 5432
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Anderson, Elijah.
A place on the corner.
(Studies of urban society)
0\ Bibliography: p.
P~v*
— Includes index.
1.—Small groups Case studies. 2. Social
—status Case studies. 3. —Participant observa-
tion Case studies. 4. Chicago Social conditions.
I. Title.
HM133.A55 301.44'0977311 78-1879
ISBN 0-226-01953-5
To my mother, Carrie-Bell

Contents
Preface ix
Chapter One
The Setting 1
Chapter Two
The Elaboration of Primary Ties
and Personal Identities 31
Chapter Three
The Regulars 55
Chapter Four
The Wineheads 93
Chapter Five
The Hoodlums 29
1
Chapter Six
Social Order and Sociability 79
1
Chapter Seven
Conclusion 207
Notes 217
Bibliography 227
Index 235
VII