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by Elijah Anderson

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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 field work among the men who frequented Jelly's corner.

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Urban taverns and bars, like barbershops, carry-outs, and other such establishments, with their adjacent street corners and alleys, serve as important gathering places for people of the "urban villages" and ghetto areas of the city.

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"Anderson is the consummate participant-observer..."--William Foote Whyte, author of Street Corner Society

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 field work among the men who frequented Jelly's corner.

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  • Title A Place on the Corner
  • Author Elijah Anderson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: secon
  • Pages 271
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2003-10-16
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780226019598 / 0226019594
  • Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.46 x 5.52 x 0.61 in (21.49 x 14.02 x 1.55 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
    • Geographic Orientation: Illinois
    • Locality: Chicago, Illinois
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Participant observation, Small groups
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003048351
  • Dewey Decimal Code 302.34

About the author

Elijah Anderson is the Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences, professor of sociology, and director of the Philadelphia ethnography project at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Code of the Street and Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.
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