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Sociology 7591 Frederick Weil Spring 2020 17-C Stubbs

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Graduate Seminar: “Community Sociology”

Frederick Weil, LSU Sociology This seminar introduces students to community research: substance, research, and methods. A large dataset on community recovery from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans will be used to illustrate methods. Topics covered include a range of substantive topics, as well as methods: how to combine quantitative, ethnographic, organizational, geo-spatial, content analytical, photographic, video, comparative historical, multi-level, & other methods in community research – including issues in data collection (incl survey sampling) – to derive a fuller picture. The instructor will walk students through the steps taken in the New Orleans research, and these materials will be available, with limitations, for student projects. The students will propose and conduct a research project of their own. This project may be based on data analysis (quantitative or qualitative), and/or on a literature review. The topic must be approved by the instructor, who will advise and assist the student in developing the project. The work of the seminar will proceed on three tracks: (1) a literature review of the sociology of community, social capital, civic engagement, and associated research methodologies; (2) presentations by the instructor of the development of a large research project on community recovery in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina; and (3) the development and presentation of student projects. Important: it is not possible to bring all these tracks fully into sync with each other. In particular, the review of such a large body of literature cannot be fully coordinated with the other tracks, though by the end of the semester, we will have covered all tracks. Students may want to read ahead in some sections, if the material is needed for their student projects: the instructor can help advise on this. Class requirements:

Reading and participation in class discussion.

Writing and presentation of materials for your research project: (a) an abstract, (b) a research proposal and study design, and (c) a report of findings. A written version should be submitted to the instructor the day before the class at which they are presented.

One 20 page paper, based on your research project, due on Monday, May 4, 2020, at noon. Students must submit both paper and digital copies.

Class website:

http://www.rickweil.com/Classes/CommunitySoc.htm (see http://www.rickweil.com/) Also: http://www.lsu.edu/fweil/KatrinaResearch, http://www.rickweil.com/Mentoring/index.htm, http://www.rickweil.com/NolaNBHs/

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http://www.rickweil.com/Classes/CommunitySoc.htm

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http://www.lsu.edu/fweil/KatrinaResearch

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Books to get:

Castiglione, Dario, Jan W. van Deth, and Guglielmo Wolleb, eds., The Handbook of

Social Capital, Oxford University Press, 2008, ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927123-8. DeFilippis, James and Susan Saegert. 2012. The Community Development Reader.

New York: Routledge. ISBN-13: 978-0415507769.* Lin, Jan and Christopher Mele, eds., The Urban Sociology Reader, 2nd Edition, ISBN-

13: 978-0-415-66530-8, Taylor & Francis, 2012.* Sampson, Robert J. 2013. Great American city: Chicago and the enduring

neighborhood effect. (paper) Chicago ; London: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN-13: 978-0226055688.

Suggested:

Ostrom, Elinor and T.K. Ahn, eds. 2003. Foundations of Social Capital. Northhampton,

MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN-13: 978-1849802499. Duneier, Mitchell, Philip Kasinitz, and Alexandra A. Murphy, eds. 2014. The Urban

Ethnography Reader. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780199743575

Halseth, Greg, Sean Markey, Laura Ryser, and Don Manson. 2016. Doing Community-

Based Research: Perspectives from the Field. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN-13: 978-0773547285.

*Available as an e-book at the LSU library. Weekly topics and readings Week 1. Introduction

Readings: Theories of Community and Social Capital 1. Founders Alexis de Tocqueville review from your theory classes; selections in Ostrom and Ahn. Classic European views of city life: Ferdinand Tönnies, “Community and Society;” Georg Simmel, “The Metropolis and Mental Life,” in Lin and Mele. The Chicago Social Ecology School: Robert Ezra Park, “Human Ecology;” Ernest W. Burgess, “The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project;” Louis Wirth, “Urbanism as a Way of Life,” in Lin and Mele


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Jane Jacobs, “The Uses of City Neighborhoods,” in Lin and Mele or Ostrom and Ahn Bourdieu, Pierre. 1986. “The Forms of Capital.” Pp. 241-258 in Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education, edited by John G. Richardson. New York: Greenwood. Coleman, James S. 1988. “Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital.” American Journal of Sociology 94(Supplement: Organizations and Institutions: Sociological and Economic Approaches to the Analysis of Social Structure):S95-S120.

Putnam, Robert D. 1993. Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, selection in Ostrom and Ahn Robert Putnam, “Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital,” in Lin and Mele T.K. Ahn and Elinor Ostrom, “Social Capital and Collective Action,” chapter 3 in Castiglione, van Deth, and Wolleb

Week 2. Concepts of community: social capital, inequality, power, solidarity,

organization, leadership, culture

Readings: Theories of Community and Social Capital 2. Next Generation(s), Critics, Summarizers Robert J. Sampson, Great American city, Ch. 2

Robert J. Sampson, “What Community Supplies.” Chap 36 in DeFilippis & Saegert Hartmut Esser, “The Two Meanings of Social Capital,” chapter 1 in Castiglione, van Deth, and Wolleb Portes, Alejandro. 1998. “Social capital: Its origins and applications in modern sociology.” Pp. 1 in Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 24: Annual Reviews Inc. Portes, Alejandro. 2000. “The Two Meanings of Social Capital.” Sociological Forum 15(1):1.

Barry Wellman and Barry Leighton, “Networks, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Approaches to the Study of the Community Question,” in Lin and Mele


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Ganapati, Sukumar. 2008. “Critical appraisal of three ideas for community development in the United States.” Journal of planning education & research 27(4):382-399. Parry, Marc. 2012. “The Neighborhood Effect.” Chronicle of Higher Education 59(11):7-7. Suggested: Nan Lin, “A Network Theory of Social Capital,” chapter 2 in Castiglione, van Deth, and Wolleb Portes, Alejandro and Erik Vickstrom. 2011. “Diversity, Social Capital, and Cohesion.” Annual Review of Sociology 37(1):461-479. Claude S. Fischer, “Theories of Urbanism,” in Lin and Mele Halpern, David. 2005. Social capital. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA: Polity. Wilson, William Julius. 1987. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, The Underclass, and Public Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Massey, Douglas S. and Nancy A. Denton. 1993. American apartheid: segregation and the making of the underclass. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Sharkey, Patrick. 2013. Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Week 3. Research design and preparation for entering the field & collecting data

Background ethnographic exploration.

Operationalizing theoretical constructs for quantitative measurement.

Multiple levels of data collection: community members; community leaders; organizations.

Assignment: Presentation of Student Abstracts

Readings: Community, Civic Engagement, and Democracy. Cross-National and National Studies. Verba, Sidney, Kay Lehman Schlozman, and Henry E. Brady. 1995. Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, ch. 9-15, 17.


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Weil, Frederick D. 1989. “The Sources and Structure of Legitimation in Western Democracies: A Consolidated Model Tested with Time-Series Data in Six Countries since World War II.” American Sociological Review 54(5):682-706. Weil, Frederick D. 1994. “Political Culture, Political Structure and Democracy: The Case of Legitimation and Opposition Structure.” Pp. 65-116, Research on Democracy and Society, Vol. 2, Political Culture and Political Structure: Theoretical and Empirical Studies, edited by Frederick D. Weil. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. Sigrid Rossteutscher, “Social Capital and Civic Engagement: A Comparative Perspective,” chapter 8 in Castiglione, van Deth, and Wolleb Eric M. Uslaner, “Trust as a Moral Value,” chapter 4 in Castiglione, van Deth, and Wolleb Kenneth Newton, “Trust and Politics,” chapter 9 in Castiglione, van Deth, and Wolleb Bo Rothstein and Dietlind Stolle, “Political Institutions and Generalized Trust,” chapter 10 in Castiglione, van Deth, and Wolleb Paxton, Pamela. 2002. “Social Capital and Democracy: An Interdependent Relationship.” American Sociological Review 67(2):254-277. Suggested: Weil, Frederick D. 1985. “The variable effects of education on liberal attitudes: a comparative-historical analysis of anti-Semitism using public opinion survey data.” American Sociological Review 50:458-74. Weil, Frederick D. 1987. “Cohorts, Regimes, and the Legitimation of Democracy: West Germany since 1945.” American Sociological Review 52(3):308-24. Brehm, John and Wendy Rahn. 1997. “Individual-level evidence for the causes and consequences of social capital.” American Journal of Political Science 41:999-1023. Meindert Fennema and Jean Tillie, “Social Capital in Multicultural Society,” chapter 13 in Castiglione, van Deth, and Wolleb

Week 4. Working with community organizations, nonprofits, & others

Engaging with the community: issues in participant observation & action research; the role of the researcher


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Assignment: Student Study Design Presentations

Readings: Community and Democracy at the Local Level Berry, Jeffrey M., Kent E. Portney, and Ken Thomson. 1993. The rebirth of urban democracy. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution. Sampson, Robert J., Jeffrey D. Morenoff, and Thomas Gannon-Rowley. 2002. “Assessing ‘Neighborhood Effects’: Social Processes and New Directions in Research.” Pp. 443 in Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 28: Annual Reviews Inc. Weil, Frederick D., and Heather M. Rackin. “Neighborhood Organizations and the Repopulation of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.” Paper presented at the Researchers Meeting of the Natural Hazards Workshop, Broomfield, Colorado, July 14-17, 2019.

Herman Lelieveldt, “Neighborhood Politics,” chapter 12 in Castiglione, van Deth, and Wolleb Blanchard, Troy and Todd L. Matthews. 2006. “The Configuration of Local Economic Power and Civic Participation in the Global Economy.” Social Forces (University of North Carolina Press) 84(4):2241-2257. Tolbert, Charles M., Thomas A. Lyson, and Michael D. Irwin. 1998b. “Local Capitalism, Civic Engagement, and Socioeconomic Well-Being.” Social Forces 77(2):401-427.

Week 5. Quantitative methods: issues in field methods of data collection & strategies of

sampling

Assignment: Student Study Design Presentations

Readings: Methodological Issues in Community Research Jan W. van Deth, “Measuring Social Capital,” chapter 6 in Castiglione, van Deth, and Wolleb Auspos, Patricia. 2012. “Using Neighborhood Survey Data to Understand Neighborhoods and Improve Practice in Comprehensive Place-Based Change Efforts.” Aspen Institute, Washington, DC. Norris, Fran H. 2006. “Disaster research methods: Past progress and future directions.” Journal of Traumatic Stress 19(2):173-184. 10.1002/jts.20109. Prewitt, Kenneth, Christopher D. Mackie, and Hermann Habermann. 2014. Civic Engagement and Social Cohesion: Measuring Dimensions of Social Capital to


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Inform Policy. Washington, DC: National Research Council, The National Academies Press. http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18831 Sampling Issues after Katrina (just read for sampling information): Galea, Sandro, Andrea R. Maxwell, and Fran Norris. 2008. “Sampling and design challenges in studying the mental health consequences of disasters.” International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research 17:S21-S28. Kessler, Ronald C., Terence M. Keane, Robert J. Ursano, A. L. I. Mokdad, and Alan M. Zaslavsky. 2008. “Sample and design considerations in post-disaster mental health needs assessment tracking surveys.” International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research 17:S6-S20. Groen, Jeffrey A. and Anne E. Polivka. 2010. “Going Home after Hurricane Katrina: Determinants of Return Migration and Changes in Affected Areas.” Demography (4):821. Sastry, Narayan. 2009. “Tracing the Effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Population of New Orleans The Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study.” Sociological Methods & Research 38(1):171-196. Paxson, Christina, Elizabeth Fussell, Jean Rhodes, and Mary Waters. 2012. “Five years later: Recovery from post traumatic stress and psychological distress among low-income mothers affected by Hurricane Katrina.” Social Science & Medicine 74(2):150-157. Deryugina, Tatyana, Laura Kawano, and Steven Levitt. 2013. "The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns." unpublished paper. Gallagher, Justin and Daniel Hartley. 2014. "Household Finance after a Natural Disaster: The Case of Hurricane Katrina." Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Working Paper 1406. Groen, J., M. Kutzbach, and A. Polivka. 2014. "Storms and Jobs: The Effect of Hurricanes on Individuals’ Employment and Earnings Over the Long Term." in Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America. Boston, MA.

Sastry, Narayan and Jesse Gregory. 2014. "The Location of Displaced New Orleans Residents in the Year After Hurricane Katrina." Demography. Suggested:

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Groen, Jeffrey A. and Anne E. Polivka. 2008. “Hurricane Katrina Evacuees: Who They Are, Where They Are, and How They Are Faring.” Monthly Labor Review 131(3):32-51. Lowe, Sarah R., Emily E. Manove, and Jean E. Rhodes. 2013. “Posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth among low-income mothers who survived Hurricane Katrina.” Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 81(5):877-889.

Week 6. Quantitative methods: mapping data & geospatial analysis

Readings: Community and Geography Logan, John R. 2012. “Making a Place for Space: Spatial Thinking in Social Science.” Annual Review of Sociology 38(1):507-524. Cho, Wendy K. Tam and James G. Gimpel. 2012. “Geographic Information Systems and the Spatial Dimensions of American Politics.” Annual Review of Political Science 15(1):443-460.

Suggested: Odgers, Candice L., Avshalom Caspi, Christopher J. Bates, Robert J. Sampson, and Terrie E. Moffitt. 2012. “Systematic social observation of children’s

neighborhoods using Google street view: A reliable and cost‐effective method.” Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 53(10):1009-1017. Anselin, Luc. 2010. “Thirty years of spatial econometrics.” Papers in Regional Science 89(1):3-25.

Rupasingha, Anil and Stephan J. Goetz. 2007. “Social and political forces as determinants of poverty: A spatial analysis.” The Journal of Socio-Economics 36(4):650-671.

Rupasingha, Anil, Stephan J. Goetz, and David Freshwater. 2006. “The production of social capital in US counties.” Journal of Socio-Economics 35:83-101.

Week 7. Quantitative methods: merging & managing data; combining one’s own survey

data & government data; multilevel analysis

Readings: Social Capital, Community Development, Neighborhood Change: Poverty, Development, Gentrification, Short-term Rentals (e.g. Airbnbs) Weil, Frederick D., Edward Shihadeh, and Timothy T. Reling. “Do collective resources reduce the number of Airbnbs in a neighborhood? Evidence from New


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Orleans.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, New York, August 10-13, 2019.

Weil, Frederick D., and Rhiannon A. Kroeger. “Race and Cardiovascular Risk in New Orleans Neighborhoods: Does Social Capital Matter?” Draft.

Vivien Lowndes and Lawrence Pratchett, “Public Policy and Social Capital,” chapter 24 in Castiglione, van Deth, and Wolleb Ludwig, Jens, Greg J. Duncan, Lisa A. Gennetian, Lawrence F. Katz, Ronald C. Kessler, Jeffrey R. Kling, and Lisa Sanbonmatsu. 2012. “Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults.” Science 337(6101):1505-1510. Hwang, Jackelyn and Robert J. Sampson. 2014. "Divergent Pathways of Gentrification: Racial Inequality and the Social Order of Renewal in Chicago Neighborhoods." American Sociological Review 79:726-751. Alice O’Connor, “Swimming against the Tide: A Brief History of Federal Policy in Poor Communities.” Chap 2 in DeFilippis & Saegert

James DeFilippis, “Community Control and Development: The Long View.” Chap 3 in DeFilippis & Saegert Sites, William, Robert J. Chaskin, and Virginia Parks, “Reframing community practice for the 21st century: Multiple traditions, multiple challenges.” Chap 4 in DeFilippis & Saegert Norman J. Glickman and Lisa J. Servon, “More than Bricks and Sticks: Five Components of Community Development Corporation Capacity.” Chap 6 in DeFilippis & Saegert Susan Stall and Randy Stoecker, “Community Organizing or Organizing Community? Gender and the Crafts of Empowerment.” Chap 22 in DeFilippis & Saegert Saegert, Susan, “Building Civic Capacity in Urban Neighborhoods: An Empirically Grounded Anatomy.” Chap 24 in DeFilippis & Saegert David Micah Greenberg, “How Does Community Matter for Community Organizing?” Chap 25 in DeFilippis & Saegert Newman, Kathe, “Post-Industrial Widgets: Capital Flows and the Production of the Urban.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33 (2): 314-331. Chap 30 in DeFilippis & Saegert


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Randy Stoecker, “The CDC Model of Urban Development: A Critique and an Alternative.” Chap 42 in DeFilippis & Saegert Anne C. Kubisch, Patricia Auspos, Prudence Brown, Robert Chaskin, Karen Fulbright-Anderson, and Ralph Hamilton, “Strengthening the Connections between Communities and External Resources.” Chap 43 in DeFilippis & Saegert Ehrenhalt, Alan. 2012. The great inversion and the future of the American city. New York: Knopf. Lees, Loretta, Tom Slater, and Elvin Wyly. 2013. Gentrification. New York: Routledge. Suggested: Weil, Frederick D., Michael S. Barton, and Connor L. Burruss. “Social Capital and Foreclosures in Baton Rouge at the Start of the Housing Bubble.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, April 10-13, 2019.

John Logan and Harvey Molotch, “The City as a Growth Machine,” in Lin and Mele Saskia Sassen, “Whose City Is It? Globalization and the Formation of New Claims,” in Lin and Mele Richard Florida, “Cities and the Creative Class,” in Lin and Mele Loic J.D. Wacquant and William Julius Wilson, “The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City,” in Lin and Mele Alejandro Portes and Robert D. Manning, “The Immigrant Enclave: Theory and Empirical Examples,” in Lin and Mele Saegert, Susan, J. Phillip Thompson, and Mark R. Warren, eds. 2001. Social capital and poor communities. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Wim Wiewel, Michael Teitz, and Robert Giloth, “The Economic Development of Neighborhoods and Localities.” Chap 11 in DeFilippis & Saegert Owens, Michael Lee, “Capacity Building: The case of faith-based organizations.” Chap 15 in DeFilippis & Saegert Prudence Brown, Robert Chaskin, Ralph Hamilton, and Harold Richman, “Toward Greater Effectiveness in Community Change: Challenges and Responses for Philanthropy.” Chap 16 in DeFilippis & Saegert


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Mayer, Neil and Langley Keyes, “City Government’s Role in the Community Development System.” Chap 17 in DeFilippis & Saegert Fisher, Robert, DeFilippis, James, and Eric Shragge, “History Matters: Cannons, Anti-Cannons and Critical Lessons from the Past.” Chap 21 in DeFilippis & Saegert Bill Traynor, “Community Building: Limitations and Promises.” Chap 23 in DeFilippis & Saegert Xavier de Souza Briggs, “Doing Democracy Up-Close: Culture, Power, and Communication in Community Planning.” Chap 26 in DeFilippis & Saegert

Week 8. Qualitative methods: visual sociology, photo essays, video ethnography – field

work, post-production, & editing (see http://www.rickweil.com/NolaNBHs/, http://www.rickweil.com/Visual/)

Readings: Ethnographic Studies of Community (read selections of your choice in 2-3 of the following) Duneier, Mitchell, Philip Kasinitz, and Alexandra A. Murphy, eds. 2014. The Urban Ethnography Reader. New York: Oxford University Press. (selections)

Halseth, Greg, Sean Markey, Laura Ryser, and Don Manson. 2016. Doing Community-Based Research: Perspectives from the Field. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN-13: 978-0773547285.

Whyte, William Foote. 1943. Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Gans, Herbert J. 1962. The Urban Villagers; Group and Class in the Life of Italian-Americans. New York: Free Press of Glencoe. Stack, Carol B. 1974. All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community. New York,: Harper & Row. Anderson, Elijah. 1999. Code of the Streets. New York: W.W. Norton. Pattillo, Mary E. 1999. Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Duneier, Mitchell and Ovie Carter. 1999. Sidewalk. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

http://www.rickweil.com/NolaNBHs/

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Bourgois, Philippe I. 2003. In search of respect: selling crack in El Barrio. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press Smith, Sandra Susan. 2007. Lone Pursuit: Distrust and Defensive Individualism among the Black Poor. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi. 2009. Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Small, Mario Luis. 2009. Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. Ho, Karen. 2009. Liquidated: an ethnography of Wall Street. Durham: Duke University Press. Zuev, Dennis and Jerome Krase. 2017. “Visual Sociology.” in Sociopedia.isa. http://www.sagepub.net/isa/resources/pdf/VisualSociology.pdf

Week 9. Qualitative methods: content analysis; grounded theory; transcript coding &

emergent categories; theory development

Readings: Social Capital and Disaster Recovery Aldrich, Daniel P. 2012. Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, ch. 1, 2, 7; skim ch. 3-6. Norris, Fran H., Susan P. Stevens, Betty Pfefferbaum, Karen F. Wyche, and Rose L. Pfefferbaum. 2008. “Community Resilience as a Metaphor, Theory, Set of Capacities, and Strategy for Disaster Readiness.” American Journal of Community Psychology 41(1/2):127-150. Weil, Frederick D. 2011. “Rise of Community Organizations, Citizen Engagement, and New Institutions,” in Amy Liu, Roland V. Anglin, Richard M. Mizelle, and Allison Plyer. 2011. Resilience and Opportunity: Lessons from the U.S. Gulf Coast after Katrina and Rita. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution. Weil, Frederick D., Heather M. Rackin, and David Maddox. 2018. “Collective Resources in the Repopulation of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.” Natural Hazards 94(2): 927-952. DOI: 10.1007/s11069-018-3432-7. https://rdcu.be/4ThY

Weil, Frederick D., and Heather M. Rackin. “Neighborhood Organizations and the Repopulation of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.” Paper presented at the Researchers Meeting of the Natural Hazards Workshop, Broomfield, Colorado, July 14-17, 2019.

http://www.sagepub.net/isa/resources/pdf/VisualSociology.pdf

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Weil, Frederick D., Hyojung Kim, and David Maddox. 2014. “Social Capital and Employment in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.” Under revision. Sherrieb, Kathleen, Fran Norris, and Sandro Galea. 2010. “Measuring Capacities for Community Resilience.” Social Indicators Research 99(2):227-247. Beggs, John J., Valerie A. Haines, and Jeanne S. Hurlbert. 1996. “Situational contingencies surrounding the receipt of informal support.” Social Forces 75:201-22. Browning, Christopher R., Danielle Wallace, Seth L. Feinberg, and Kathleen A. Cagney. 2006. “Neighborhood Social Processes, Physical Conditions, and Disaster-Related Mortality: The Case of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave.” American Sociological Review 71(4):661-678. Chamlee-Wright, Emily and Virgil Storr. 2011. “Social capital, lobbying and community-based interest groups.” Public Choice 149(1/2):167-185. Cutter, Susan L., Christopher G. Burton, and Christopher T. Emrich. 2010. “Disaster Resilience Indicators for Benchmarking Baseline Conditions.” Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management 7(1):1-22. Frankenberg, Elizabeth, Jenna Nobles, and Cecep Sumantri. 2012. “Community Destruction and Traumatic Stress in Post-Tsunami Indonesia.” Journal of Health & Social Behavior 53(4):498-514. Le, Felice, Melissa Tracy, Fran Norris, and Sandro Galea. 2013. “Displacement, county social cohesion, and depression after a large-scale traumatic event.” Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology 48(11):1729-1741. Lee, Matthew R. and Troy C. Blanchard. 2012. “Community Attachment and Negative Affective States in the Context of the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster.” American Behavioral Scientist 56(1):24-47. Nakagawa, Yuko and Rajib Shaw. 2004. “Social Capital: A Missing Link to Disaster Recovery.” International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 22(1):5-34. Seidman, Karl F. 2013. Coming home to New Orleans: Neighborhood Rebuilding after Katrina. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. Wooten, Tom. 2012. We Shall Not Be Moved: Rebuilding Home in the Wake of Katrina. Boston: Beacon Press. Suggested:


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Weil, Frederick, Matthew Lee, and Edward Shihadeh. 2011. “The Burdens of Social Capital: How Socially-Involved People Dealt with Stress after Hurricane Katrina.” Social Science Research 41(1):110-119. DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.06.006 Patterson, Olivia, Frederick D. Weil, and Kavita Patel. 2010. “The Role of Community in Disaster Response: Conceptual Models.” Population Research and Policy Review 29, 2:127-141. DOI 10.1007/s11113-009-9133-x. Lee, Matthew R., Frederick D. Weil, and Edward S. Shihadeh. 2007. “The FEMA Trailer Parks: Negative Perceptions and the Social Structure of Avoidance.” Sociological Spectrum, 27: 741–766.

Erikson, Kai. 1976. Everything in its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Erikson, Kai. 1994. A New Species of Trouble: Explorations in Disaster, Trauma, and Community. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.

Dillard, Maria K., Theresa L. Goedeke, Susan Lovelace, and Angela Orthmeyer. 2013. “Monitoring Well-being and Changing Environmental Conditions in Coastal Communities: Development of an Assessment Method.” Technical Memorandum NOS NCCOS 174. NOAA, Silver Spring, MD.

Norris, Fran H., Melissa Tracy, and Sandro Galea. 2009. “Looking for resilience: Understanding the longitudinal trajectories of responses to stress.” Social Science & Medicine 68(12):2190-2198. 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.03.043. Norris, Fran H. 2006. “Disaster research methods: Past progress and future directions.” Journal of Traumatic Stress 19(2):173-184. 10.1002/jts.20109. Healy, Andrew and Neil Malhotra. 2009. “Myopic Voters and Natural Disaster Policy.” American Political Science Review 103(3):387-406. Cutter, Susan L., Bryan J. Boruff, and W. Shirley. 2003. “Social Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards.” Social Science Quarterly (Blackwell Publishing Limited) 84(2):242-261. Cutter, Susan L. and Christina Finch. 2008. “Temporal and spatial changes in social vulnerability to natural hazards.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105(7):2301-2306. Picou, J. Steven, Brent K. Marshall, and Duane A. Gill. 2004. “Disaster, Litigation and the Corrosive Community.” Social Forces 82(4):1493-1522.


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Tierney, Kathleen and Michel Bruneau. 2007. “Conceptualizing and Measuring Resilience: A Key to Disaster Loss Reduction.” TR News 250(May-June):14-17.

Week 10. Comparative historical context and the logic of analysis: combining multi-method materials to develop and test hypotheses, and tell a complete story and structural analysis

Readings: Social Capital and Participation Sampson, Robert J., Heather MacIndoe, Doug McAdam, and Simon Weffer-Elizondo. 2005. “Civil Society Reconsidered: The Durable Nature and Community Structure of Collective Civic Action.” American Journal of Sociology 111(3):673-714. Paxton, Pamela. 1999. “Is social capital declining in the United States? A multiple indicator assessment.” American Journal of Sociology 105(1):88. Paxton, Pamela. 2007. “Association Memberships and Generalized Trust: A Multilevel Model Across 31 Countries.” Social Forces 86(1):47-76. Gamm, Gerald and Robert D. Putnam. 1999. “The Growth of Voluntary Associations in America, 1840-1940.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 29(4):511-557. Skocpol, Theda, Marshall Ganz, and Ziad Munson. 2000. “A nation of organizers: the institutional origins of civic voluntarism in the United States.” The American Political Science Review 94:527-46. William Maloney, “Interests Groups and Social Capital,” chapter 11 in Castiglione, van Deth, and Wolleb Marc Hooghe, “Voluntary Associations and Socialization,” chapter 20 in Castiglione, van Deth, and Wolleb Suggested: Hill, Kim Quaile and Tetsuya Matsubayashi. 2005. “Civic Engagement and Mass -- Elite Policy Agenda Agreement in American Communities.” American Political Science Review 99(2):215-224. Lewis, Valerie A., Carol Ann MacGregor, and Robert D. Putnam. 2013. “Religion, networks, and neighborliness: The impact of religious social networks on civic engagement.” Social Science Research 42(2):331-346.


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Week 11. Student Reports

Readings: Collective Efficacy, Crime, and Social Networks Sampson, Robert J., Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Felton Earls. 1997. “Neighborhoods and violent crime: A multilevel study of collective efficacy.” Science 277(5328):918-924. Robert J. Sampson, Great American city, ch. 5-8 Sampson, Robert J. and Corina Graif. 2009. “Neighborhood Social Capital as Differential Social Organization: Resident and Leadership Dimensions.” American Behavioral Scientist 52(11):1579-1605. Sampson, Robert J. and Corina Graif. 2009. “Neighborhood Networks and Processes of Trust.” Pp. 182-216 in Whom Can We Trust? How Groups, Networks, and Institutions Make Trust Possible, edited by Karen Cook, Russell Hardin, and Margaret Levi. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Weil, Frederick D., Michael S. Barton, Heather M. Rackin, Matthew Valasik, and David Maddox. 2019. “Collective resources and violent crime reconsidered: New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina.” Journal of Interpersonal Violence. doi.org/10.1177/0886260518822345 Brown, Kevin J., and Frederick D. Weil. 2019. “Strangers in the Neighborhood: Violence and Neighborhood Boundaries.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. DOI: 10.1177/0891241619857150

Hipp, John R. 2007. “Block, Tract, and Levels of Aggregation: Neighborhood Structure and Crime and Disorder as a Case in Point.” American Sociological Review 72(5):659-680. Papachristos, Andrew V., David M. Hureau, and Anthony A. Braga. 2013. “The Corner and the Crew: The Influence of Geography and Social Networks on Gang Violence.” American Sociological Review 78(3):417-447. Suggested: Hipp, John R. and Andrew Perrin. 2006. “Nested Loyalties: Local Networks' Effects on Neighbourhood and Community Cohesion.” Urban Studies (Routledge) 43(13):2503-2523. Weil, Frederick D. “Conducting a Large Resident Survey to Understand Crime after a Disaster: Utility, Challenges, Limitations.” Paper to be included in a special issue of the American Behavioral Scientist on Crime and Disaster, edited by Kelly Frailing.


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Barton, Michael S., Frederick D. Weil, Matthew Valasik, Heather M. Rackin, and Lynnette Coto. “What was Washed Away and What Was Not: An Assessment of the Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Index Crimes.” Under review at American Journal of Criminal Justice.

Barton, Michael S., Frederick Weil, Melinda Jackson, and Darien Hickey. 2016. “An Investigation of the Influence of the Spatial Distribution of Neighborhood Violent Crime on Fear of Crime.” Crime & Delinquency. DOI:10.1177/0011128716671874.

Week 12. Student Reports

Readings: Social Capital and (National) Economic Development Woolcock, Michael. 1998. “Social capital and economic development: Toward a theoretical synthesis and policy framework.” Theory & Society 27(2):151-208. Anirudh Krishna, “The Role of Social Capital in Development,” chapter 16 in Castiglione, van Deth, and Wolleb Knack, Stephen and Philip Keefer. 1997. “Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 112(4):1251-88.

Documents

Graduate Seminar: “Community Sociologyfweil.com/Classes/S7591CommunitySocSyl.pdf · Louis Wirth, “Urbanism as a Way of Life,” in Lin and Mele. Sociology 7591 Frederick Weil