A reassessment of the sociability of long term skid row residents: A social network approach.

摘要: Despite more than one hundred and fifty empirical studies completed on the subject of skid row, no issue remains so completely muddled that sociability row men. Utilizing network analysis techniques developed in previous work with inner-city populations, authors interviewed 48 elderly residents Bowery. The data dispelled notion rowers are isolated, incapable intimacy complex social formation, unable to enlist support their compeers response deteriorating health. Nonetheless, as contrasted other urban they had markedly constricted worlds. A reinterpretation literature is proffered based these findings.