Place on the Corner, Second Edition / Edition 2

by Elijah Anderson

Overview

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 fieldwork among the men who frequented Jelly's corner.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900226019597
Publication date:	10/16/2003
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Elijah Anderson is the Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale University. His past books include A Place on the Corner,Streetwise, published by the University of Chicago Press, as well as Code of the Street and The Cosmopolitan Canopy.

Table of Contents

	Preface to the Second Edition	ix
	Preface	xv
Chapter 1	The Setting	1
Chapter 2	The Elaboration of Primary Ties and Personal Identities	31
Chapter 3	The Regulars	55
Chapter 4	The Wineheads	93
Chapter 5	The Hoodlums	129
Chapter 6	Social Order and Sociability	179
Chapter 7	Conclusion	207
	Notes	217
	Bibliography	227
Appendix	Jelly's Place: An Ethnographic Memoir	235
	Index	269