Cracks in the pavement : social change and resilience in poor neighborhoods

Publication Data

• Title Cracks in the pavement : social change and resilience in poor neighborhoods
• Author Martín Sánchez-Jankowski
• Publisher University of California Press
• Publication date 2008
• Publication location Berkeley, Calif.
• Language English

Contents

A theory of life, social change, and preservation in poor neighborhoods
Give me shelter : competing agendas for life in public housing
A living refuge : social change and preservation in the housing project
Provisions for life : making the mom-and-pop store a neighborhood institution
Taking care of business : social change and preservation in the mom-and-pop store
Not just a clip joint : hair shops and the institution of grooming
Life on the edge : social change and preservation in the hair shop
The gang's all here : fathering a bastard institution
All in the family : mothering the gang as a bastard institution
Whither the neighborhood high school? Contending roles and functions
School works : the dynamics of two production lines.

Topics

• Urban poor :: United States :: Case studies
• Inner cities :: United States :: Case studies
• Urban poor :: Social networks :: New York (State) :: New York
• Urban poor :: Social networks :: California :: Los Angeles
• Social change :: New York (State) :: New York
• 014646708

Cracks in the pavement : social change and resilience in poor neighborhoods by Martín Sánchez-Jankowski. ISBN 9780520256750. Published by University of California Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.