Negative social capital: State breakdown and social destitution in America's urban core

Journal of Housing and the Built Environment

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 25-40

  Wacquant, Loïc J D ^a,b  

^a l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^b University of Californias   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GHETTOS; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL SEGREGATION; URBAN POVERTY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0031721962     PISSN: 15664910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02496932     Document Type: Review

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