Urban outcasts : a comparative sociology of advanced marginality /
Wacquant, Loic
Urban outcasts : a comparative sociology of advanced marginality / Loic Wacquant - UK Polity Press 2008 - 342 p.
Urban Outcasts sheds new light on the explosive mix of mounting misery, stupendous affluence and festering street violence resurging in the big cities of the First World. By specifying the different causal paths and experiential forms assumed by relegation in the American and the French metropolis, this book offers indispensable tools for rethinking urban marginality and for reinvigorating the public debate over social inequality and citizenship at century's dawn.
9780745631257
Marginality, Social
Sociology, Urban
Illinois--Chicago
Inner cities
Urban violence
307.76 WAC-L
Urban outcasts : a comparative sociology of advanced marginality / Loic Wacquant - UK Polity Press 2008 - 342 p.
Urban Outcasts sheds new light on the explosive mix of mounting misery, stupendous affluence and festering street violence resurging in the big cities of the First World. By specifying the different causal paths and experiential forms assumed by relegation in the American and the French metropolis, this book offers indispensable tools for rethinking urban marginality and for reinvigorating the public debate over social inequality and citizenship at century's dawn.
9780745631257
Marginality, Social
Sociology, Urban
Illinois--Chicago
Inner cities
Urban violence
307.76 WAC-L