To Dwell among Friends: Personal Networks in Town and City / Edition 1

by Claude S. Fischer

Overview

An analysis of the influence of urban life on society compares and contrasts personal relationships in large cities with those in small towns.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226251387
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	04/15/1982
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	459
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Claude S. Fischer is professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of many books, including Century of Difference: How America Changed in the Last One Hundred Years and America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940.

Claude S. Fischer is professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of The Urban Experience and Networks and Places.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Personal Community
I - The Setting
2. The Communities, the Residents, and Why They Were There
3. Personal Networks: An Overview
II - First Issues
4. Urbanism and Psychological Strain
5. Urbanism and Social Involvement
6. Urbanism and Traditional Values
III - The Social Contexts of Personal Relations
7. Kin
8. Nonkin
9. Varieties of Nonkin: Neighbors and Co-workers
10. Varieties of Nonkin: Organization Members and Just Friends
IV - Dimensions of Personal Networks
11. Personal Networks as Social Support
12. The Structure of Relations and Networks
13. The Spatial Dimension of Personal Relations
14. Homogeneity in Personal Relations: Stage in the Life Cycle
V - Subcultures
15. Urbanism and the Development of Subcultures
16. Involvement in Subcultures: Ethnicity and Religion
17. Involvement in Subcultures: Occupation and Pastime
18. Subcultures: Alienation in Urban Public Life
19. Conclusion
Appendixes
A. Methodological Appendix
B. Respondent Interview
C. Informant Questionnaire
Notes
References
Index