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Villa Victoria : the transformation of social capital in a Boston barrio / Mario Luis Small

Small, Mario Luis,i1974- [Verfasser]

Chicago : University Of Chicago Press, 2004

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xx, 226 pages) : map

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index

978-0-226-76293-7 ; 0-226-76293-9 ; 978-0-226-76292-0

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. Mari.