Ethnography, the ecological fallacy, and the 1995 Chicago heat wave

American Sociological Review

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 679-688

  Duneier, Mitchell ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK POPULATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; MORTALITY; NEIGHBORHOOD;

CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33749187659     PISSN: 00031224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000312240607100408     Document Type: Article

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