American Ghetto
Monday 2 May 2016
In their effort to communicate complex thoughts, social scientists have borrowed lay terms with impunity. At times, the practice helps to clarify a difficult theory. Perhaps as often, it muddies the conceptual waters.
(Recension de Mitchell Duneier, 2016, Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea, New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux.)
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