Neighborhood Organization and Social Control in Changing Urban China

Download or read book Neighborhood Organization and Social Control in Changing Urban China written by Lening Zhang and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopting a cross-cultural perspective, this book utilizes data collected from several large-scale surveys to assess the neighborhood social control system in a changing urban China. It conceptualizes this system through different types of neighborhood social control at private, parochial, semi-public, public, and market levels. The book highlights the importance of cross-cultural studies of neighborhood effects, and discusses several major issues in such studies along with prospects for future research.