Code of the Street

Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

von Elijah Anderson

352 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules-based largely on an individual's ability to command respect-is a powerful and pervasive form of etiquette, governing the way in which people learn to negotiate public spaces. Elijah Anderson's incisive book delineates the code and examines it as a response to the lack of jobs that pay a living wage, to the stigma of race, to rampant drug use, to alienation and lack of hope.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Soziologie Sozialtheorie
• ISBN: 9780393320787
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.09.2000
• Größe: 209 x 139 mm
• Verlag: WW Norton & Co