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There are few sociologists in America as important as Geyser University Professor William Julius Wilson and Richard P. Taub of the University of Chicago. Wilson—who left Hyde Park for Cambridge a decade ago—and Taub conduct sociology in the classic Chicago style: sending well-trained graduate students into Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods to probe the city’s complex race, class, and social interactions...
...collar Latino population; “Archer Park,” a longtime bastion of Latinos, home to many recent Mexican arrivals; and “Groveland,” a South Side neighborhood of middle class black residents and a seat of historic black culture. While Wilson and Taub rarely extrapolate a conclusion for the nation or offer a normative judgment, they have chosen their neighborhoods carefully enough that their observations likely hold relevance for urban centers across the country...
...neighborhoods weather demographic changes, the professors use a simple theoretical construct—Albert O. Hirschman’s theory of exit and voice. The theory, originally developed for firms, argues that in places where loyalty is high—due to strong civic institutions, Wilson and Taub say—residents resort to “voice,” meaning that they stay and try to preserve their neighborhoods...
...past 10 years have been a time of tremendous urban renewal in Chicago, both within the municipal government and among the city’s neighborhoods. While it is unlikely that any of the neighborhoods chosen by Wilson and Taub have seen significant gentrification, the references to the Board of Education—Chicago’s mayor took over the schools in 1995, appointing a CEO whose central administration is now responsible for most everything—seem antiquated, as do mentions of Chicago’s notorious housing projects, which have largely been demolished...
...large, stately crossword, as imposing and exciting as Queen Victoria's bustle. Beneath it was one of three puzzles: an acrostic (twice as much work for half the fun), a diagramless crossword (you're given the clues but not the grid - why?) and, once in four weeks, Mel Taub's Puns and Anagrams - sort of a kindergarten cryptic. You never saw the features that made Games magazine such instructive fun, such as Flower Power or the Spiral, and rarely found those puzzles' authors, some of the brightest minds in puzzling...