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Paperback Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality Book
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ISBN: 0745631258

ISBN13: 9780745631257

Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality

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Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same. Drawing on a wealth of original field, survey and historical data, Lo?c Wacquant shows that the involution of America's urban core after the 1960s is due not to the emergence of an 'underclass',...

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