Summary: This episode we talk with Robert Sampson [1] about his new book, Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect [2]. In the face of globalization and the widespread belief that the “world is flat,” Sampson shows how the world is actually very uneven, and that local communities make a great difference in how people live their lives across a wide range of phenomenon, from homicide and child health, to leadership networks, teenage pregnancy, altruism, and home foreclosures. Download Office Hours #47 [3]. [1] http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/sampson/ [2] http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo5514383.html [3] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH47_Sampson.mp3
