Synopses & Reviews
"Anderson is the consummate participant-observer..."—William Foote Whyte, author of
Street Corner SocietyThis 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.
Synopsis
"Anderson's mix of the language of sociology and the more colorful street idiom makes a complex social phenomenon accessible to a broad audience. . . . An important work."—Gerald Lee Dillingham, Contemporary Sociology
About the Author
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.
Table of Contents
Preface to the Second EditionPreface
Chapter One
The Setting
Chapter Two
The Elaboration of Primary Ties and Personal Identities
Chapter Three
The Regulars
Chapter Four
The Wineheads
Chapter Five
The Hoodlums
Chapter Six
Social Order and Sociability
Chapter Seven
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Appendix
Jelly's Place: An Ethnographic Memoir
Index