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Mario Luis Small

Villa Victoria

The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio

246 pages, 1 map, 1 line drawing, 2 figures, 6 tables  6 x 9  © 2004

Cloth $50.00

ISBN: 9780226762913   Published July 2004

Paper $22.00

ISBN: 9780226762920   Published July 2004

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. How Does Neighborhood Poverty Affect Social Capital?
2. Villa Victoria and Boston's South End
3. The Rise and Decline of Local Participation, Part 1: Social Organization Theory
4. The Rise and Decline of Local Participation, Part 2: Cohorts and Collective Narratives
5. The Ecology of Group Differentiation
6. Social Capital and the Spatialization of Resources
7. A Labyrinth of Loyalties
8. Social Capital in Poor Neighborhoods
Epilogue
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
Awards
  • C. Wright Mills Award
  • Mary Douglas Prize Honorable Mention
  • Robert E. Park Award
  • Mirra Komarovsky Book Award Honorable Mention
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