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| Author: | Sampson, R.J. |
| Title: | Disparity and diversity in the contemporary city: social (dis)order revisited |
| Journal: | British Journal of Sociology
2009 : MAR, VOL. 60:1, p. 1-31 |
| Index terms: | sociology social psychology cities crime inequality poverty minority groups |
| Freeterms: | disorder |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This study underscores the relevance of social psychological mechanisms interacting with cultural and structural processes for understanding urban inequality, which is an area dominated by structuralist research. Neighbourhoods with high minority and poor resident concentrations are stigmatized by historically correlated and structurally induced problems of crime and disorder. Because people act on their perceptions of disorder, the contributions of racial composition and concentrated poverty are tied reciprocally to the actions of observers. In turn, social perceptions form a meaningful aspect of the neighbourhood environment affecting individual perceptions and actions. By this account, the perceptual basis of action alternatives is highly contingent on social context. |
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