URBAN AND ETHNIC

The following readings are from Urban Patterns: Studies in Human Ecology (rev. ed.). Edited by George A. Theodorson. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1982.

• Park, Robert E. 'Human Ecology.'
  
• McKenzie, Roderick D. 'The Scope of Human Ecology.'
  
• Burgess, Ernest W.. 'The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project.'
  
• Hoyt, Homer. 'The Patterns of Movement of Residential Rental Neighborhoods.'
  
• Zorbaugh, Harvey W. 'The Natural Areas of the City.'
  
• Hawley, Amos H. 'Ecology and Human Ecology.'
  
• Schnore, Leo F. 'Social Morphology and Human Ecology.'
  
• Duncan, Otis Dudley. 'From Social System to Ecosystem.'
  
• Firey, Walter. 'Sentiment and Symbolism as Ecological Variables.'
  

Frazier, E. Franklin. On Race Relations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968 (orig. 1953), pp. 3-29.

Bradbury, Katharine L., et al. Urban Decline and the Future of American Cities. Washington DC:Brookings Institution, 1982, pp. 68-108.

Peterson, Paul. The New Urban Reality. Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 1985, chs. by John D. Kasarda, William J. Wilson and Terry N. Clark.

Fischer, Claude. To Dwell among Friends: Personal Networks in Town and City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, chs. 1, 19.

White, Michael J. American Neighborhoods and Residential Differentiation. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1987, chs. 4, 5, 6.

Hannerz, Ulf. Soulside: Inquiries into Ghetto Life and Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969, Introduction, ch. 9.

Gordon, Milton. 'Toward a General Theory of Racial and Ethnic Groups Relations.' In Ethnicity: Theory and Experience, ed. Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975.

Lieberson, Stanley. A Piece of the Pie: Blacks and White Immigrants since 1880. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980, chs. 1, 7.

Lieberson, Stanley, and Mary C. Walters. From Many Strands: Ethnic and Racial Groups in Contemporary America. New York: Russel Sage, 1988, chs. 2, 6, 8.

Massey, Douglas S. 'Ethnic Residential Segregation: A Theoretical Synthesis and Empirical Review.' Sociology and Social Research 69 (1985):315-50.

Elazar, Daniel J. 'The American Cultural Matrix.' In The Ecology of American Political Culture, ed. D. Elazar and J. Zikmund. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1975.

Portes, Alejandro, and Ruben G. Rumbaut. Immigrant America: A Portrait. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, ch. 1, 3, 7.

Jargowsky, Paul A. 'Ghetto Poverty among Blacks in the 1980s.' Journal of Policy and Management (13):288-310.

Jaynes, Gerald, and Robin M. Williams, eds. A Common Destiny: Blacks, and American Society. Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1989, ch.3.

Schermerhorn, Richard A. Comparative Ethnic Relations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978, 'Introduction,' ch. 1.

Shaw, Clifford, and Henry McKay. Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas. Rev. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969, pp. 315-28.

Short, James F., ed. The Social Fabric of the Metropolis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 3-14 (Harvey W. Zorbaugh, 'The Shadow of the Skyscraper'), pp. 17-32 (R. D. McKenzie, 'The Ecological Approach to the Study of Human Community'), pp. 33-69 (E. C. Hughes, 'The Growth of an Institution'), pp. 167-89 (S. C. Kincheloe, 'The Behavior Sequence of a Dying Church').

See Population/Family/Gender, Greenwood, Michael, and Preston, Samuel.

ADDITIONAL READINGS:

Becker, Howard. The Outsiders. New York: Free Press, 1963. Chapters 1, 8.

Kornhauser, Ruth. Social Sources of Delinquency. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. Chapters 1 and 2.

Merton, Robert. ''Social Structure and Anomie'' American Sociological Review 3 (1938): 673-682.

Sullivan, Mercer. ''Getting Paid:'' Youth Crime and Work in the Inner City. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.