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The Classic Slum

Campbell Balfour
- 01 Sep 1972 - 
- Vol. 6, Iss: 3, pp 491-492
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This article is published in Sociology.The article was published on 1972-09-01. It has received 23 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Slum.

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Resistance Through Rituals

TL;DR: The logic-of-enquiry of participant observation has been used to do justice to the contradictions of our society in an adequate confrontation of the theoretical and political problems which they pose.
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From correlates and characteristics to causes: thinking about poverty from a chronic poverty perspective

TL;DR: The authors argue for understandings of poverty that go beyond measurement-led conceptualizations to more adequately expose the causes of poverty, highlighting the forms of social relations that produce poverty, and which are often embedded within political institutions and economic structures.
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The ‘chav’ phenomenon: Consumption, media and the construction of a new underclass

TL;DR: The authors argue that the decline of the underclass discourse in the UK and the rise of the 'chav' are not unconnected, and argue that there are numerous homologies between the meaning content, objects and tenor of these two terms.
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Whom Can You Trust? The Politics of ‘Grassing’ on an Inner City Housing Estate:

TL;DR: The authors explored how people living in, going to work in, attending school in, high crime areas manage their routine daily lives and argued that the question of the ‘fear of crime' is much better understood through an appreciation of how the questions of trust manifest itself in that community.
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Residential Segregation and Class Formation in the Capitalist City: A Review and Directions for Research:

TL;DR: The residential segregation of social classes is a distinctive feature of the capitalist city as discussed by the authors, and its consequences for the development of social and political life within the city have been relatively poorly understood.
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Resistance Through Rituals

TL;DR: The logic-of-enquiry of participant observation has been used to do justice to the contradictions of our society in an adequate confrontation of the theoretical and political problems which they pose.
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From correlates and characteristics to causes: thinking about poverty from a chronic poverty perspective

TL;DR: The authors argue for understandings of poverty that go beyond measurement-led conceptualizations to more adequately expose the causes of poverty, highlighting the forms of social relations that produce poverty, and which are often embedded within political institutions and economic structures.
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The ‘chav’ phenomenon: Consumption, media and the construction of a new underclass

TL;DR: The authors argue that the decline of the underclass discourse in the UK and the rise of the 'chav' are not unconnected, and argue that there are numerous homologies between the meaning content, objects and tenor of these two terms.
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Whom Can You Trust? The Politics of ‘Grassing’ on an Inner City Housing Estate:

TL;DR: The authors explored how people living in, going to work in, attending school in, high crime areas manage their routine daily lives and argued that the question of the ‘fear of crime' is much better understood through an appreciation of how the questions of trust manifest itself in that community.
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Residential Segregation and Class Formation in the Capitalist City: A Review and Directions for Research:

TL;DR: The residential segregation of social classes is a distinctive feature of the capitalist city as discussed by the authors, and its consequences for the development of social and political life within the city have been relatively poorly understood.