Robert J. Sampson: Unterschied zwischen den Versionen

Sampsons Interesse gilt dem Einfluss von sozialer (Des-) Organisation und bestimmten Eigenschaften von Nachbarschaften auf Abweichung und Kriminalität (Ethnizität, Immigration, ökologische Ungleichheit...). Eine zentrale Rolle spielen dabei die Daten aus dem von ihm geleiteten Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN).

Sampson, Robert J., "Open Doors Don't Invite Criminals: Is Increased Immigration Behind the Drop in Crime?," New York Times, March 11, 2006, p. A27 (OP-ED).

Sampson, Robert J., Jeffrey D. Morenoff, and Stephen Raudenbush. 2005. "Social Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Violence." American Journal of Public Health 95: 224-232.

Sampson, Robert J., 2008. "Neighborhood Selection and the Social Reproduction of Concentrated Racial Inequality." Demography (Vol. 45: 1-29).

Sampson, Robert J., 2008. "Durable Effects of Concentrated Disadvantage on Verbal Ability among African-American Children." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: January 22, 2008. Vol. 105 (3): 845-853.

Sampson, Robert J., Jeffrey D. Morenoff and Thomas Gannon-Rowley. 2002. "Assessing Neighborhood Effects: Social Processes and New Directions in Research." Annual Review of Sociology 28:443-478.

Sampson, Robert J., Stephen Raudenbush, and Felton Earls. 1997. "Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy." Science 277:918-24.

Sampson, Robert J. and Stephen W. Raudenbush. 2004. "Seeing Disorder: Neighborhood Stigma and the Social Construction of 'Broken Windows'." Social Psychology Quarterly 67: 319-342.

Winner of the 2006 Robert Park Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association. Revised version reprinted as Neighborhood Stigma and the Perception of Disorder in Focus 24: 7-11.

Press related stories:

"Reconsidering the Broken Windows Theory featured on NPR s Morning Edition

"A Crack in the Broken-Windows Theory" in The Washington Post ***"The Cracks in 'Broken Windows'" in The Boston Globe.

Sampson, Robert J., "'After-School' Chicago: Space and the City." Special Issue on "Chicago and Los Angeles: Paradigms, Schools, Archetypes, and the Urban Process." Urban Geography (Vol. 29: 127-137, 2008).

Sampson, Robert J. and Jeffrey Morenoff. 2006. "Durable Inequality: Spatial Dynamics, Social Processes, and the Persistence of Poverty in Chicago Neighborhoods." pp. 176–203 In Poverty Traps, edited by Samuel Bowles, Steve Durlauf, and Karla Hoff. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006.

Morenoff, Jeffrey, Robert J. Sampson, and Stephen Raudenbush. 2001. "Neighborhood Inequality, Collective Efficacy, and the Spatial Dynamics of Urban Violence." Criminology 39:517-560.

Sampson Robert J. Jeffrey Morenoff, and Felton Earls. 1999. "Beyond Social Capital: Spatial Dynamics of Collective Efficacy for Children." American Sociological Review 64: 633-660.

Ecometrics

The aim of the “Chicago Collective Civic Participation Project” (CCCP) is to develop a new theoretical approach and novel empirical strategy for tackling fundamental questions about the nature and changing structure of civic life in the modern city. By integrating key strengths of the social movements and urban sociological paradigms, this project recasts debates on civil society by giving priority to variations across time and space in robust mechanisms of collective engagement in the form of non-routine events not initiated by the State or political professionals, but by collectivities motivated by a particular issue to act together in public (i.e., civic) space. Analyzing over 4,000 events in the Chicago metropolitan area from 1970 to 2000, we find that civic engagement is by far the dominant form of collective action and is durable over time. Although "sixties style" protest declines, we also uncover the growth of a largely overlooked hybrid that combines public claims-making with civic forms of behavior—what we call "blended social action." Furthermore, we show that dense social ties, group memberships, and neighborly exchange do not predict a greater propensity for collective action at the community level in the city of Chicago. The density of community nonprofit organizations matters instead, suggesting that declines in many forms of traditional social capital may not be as consequential for civic capacity as commonly thought.