Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City with Elijah Anderson (Norton, 2026)

Podcast: New Books in Sociology · New Books Network

Opublikowano: 2026-10-26

Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules-based largely on an individual's ability to command respect-is a powerful and pervasive form of etiquette, governing the way in which people learn to negotiate public spaces. Elijah Anderson's incisive book Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City (Norton, 2026) delineates the code and examines it as a response to the lack of jobs that pay a living...