Gerald D. Suttles
Gerald Dale Suttles (1932–2017) was an American urban sociologist.
Gerald Suttles was born in North Carolina to parents Gertrude and Berlin Suttles.{{cite news |title=Gerald Suttles |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?n=gerald-suttles&pid=185412683 |access-date=10 February 2019 |work=Chicago Tribune |date=17 May 2017}} He served in the United States Navy from 1951 to 1955 before attending Reed College. Suttles earned his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. While researching his first book, Suttles moved to what became the Tri-Taylor area of Chicago's Near West Side, where he lived for three years.{{cite news |title=In Memoriam: Gerald Suttles '59 |url=https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/in-memoriam/obituaries/2017/gerald-suttles-1959.html |access-date=10 February 2019 |work=Reed Magazine |date=December 2017}} The Social Order of the Slum was published in 1968, and won the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems that year, followed by the University of Chicago's Gordon J. Laing Award in 1970. Suttles began teaching at the University of Chicago in 1967. He left Chicago for a position at Stony Brook University in 1971. Suttles returned to Chicago in 1976. In 1993, the American Sociological Association bestowed upon Suttles its Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Lifetime Achievement. He remained on Chicago's faculty until retirement in 1997. Suttles and his wife Kirsten Gronbjerg moved to Bloomington, Indiana, where Suttles accepted an adjunct professorship at Indiana University.{{cite news |title=Gerald D. Suttles, Pioneering Scholar and Urban Sociologist 1932–2017 |url=https://socialsciences.uchicago.edu/announcement/gerald-d-suttles-pioneering-scholar-and-urban-sociologist-1932%E2%80%932017 |access-date=10 February 2019 |publisher=Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago |date=19 May 2017 |archive-date=12 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212130822/https://socialsciences.uchicago.edu/announcement/gerald-d-suttles-pioneering-scholar-and-urban-sociologist-1932%E2%80%932017 |url-status=dead }} He died in Bloomington on May 11, 2017. His "Ethnobiography," A Journey Through Social Change: From the Mountains of Western North Carolina to the Slums of Chicago, edited by Kirsten Gronbjerg, his wife, was published in 2020.
Books
- {{cite book |last1=Suttles |first1=Gerald D. |title=A Journey Through Social Change: From the Mountains of North Carolina to the Slums of Chicago, Edited by Kirsten A. Gronbjerg |date=2020 |publisher=Lulu Press, 424 pages, $24.95 |isbn=979-1716626868}}
- {{cite book |last1=Suttles |first1=Gerald D. |title=Front Page Economics |date=2011 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=9780226781983 |pages=253}}{{cite journal |last1=Grundmann |first1=Reiner |journal=Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews |title=Front Page Economics, by Gerald D. Suttles |date=2013 |volume=42 |issue=4 |doi=10.1177/0094306113491549xx|s2cid=147035521 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Gronbjerg |first1=Kirsten |last2=Street |first2=David |last3=Suttles |first3=Gerald D. |title=Poverty and Social Change |url=https://archive.org/details/povertysocialcha0000grnb |url-access=registration |date=1978 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=9780226309620 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/povertysocialcha0000grnb/page/248 248]}}{{cite journal |last1=Perry |first1=Charles S. |title=Poverty and Social Change.Edited by Kirsten Gronbjerg, David Street, and Gerald D. Suttles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. 248 pp. $16.00 |journal=Social Forces |date=1 December 1980 |volume=59 |issue=2 |pages=557–559 |doi=10.1093/sf/59.2.557}}{{cite journal |last1=Kravitz |first1=Sanford |title=Poverty and Social Change. By Kirsten Grønbjerg, David Street, and Gerald D. Suttles. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1978. 248 pp. $16.00 |journal=Social Work |date=1 September 1979 |volume=24 |issue=5 |page=433 |doi=10.1093/sw/24.5.433}}{{cite journal |last1=James |first1=Edward |title=Kirsten Grønbjerg, David Street and Gerald D. Suttles, Poverty and Social Change, University of Chicago Press, London, 1978. vii + 248 pp. £11.20. |journal=Journal of Social Policy |date=January 1980 |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=132–133 |doi=10.1017/S0047279400009673|s2cid=144606669 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Suttles |first1=Gerald D. |title=The Man-Made City: The Land-Use Confidence Game in Chicago |date=1990 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=9780226781938 |pages=326 |url=https://archive.org/details/manmadecitylandu0000sutt |url-access=registration }}{{cite journal |last1=Marcuse |first1=Peter |title=The Man-Made City: The Land-Use Confidence Game in Chicago by Gerald D. Suttles |journal=Journal of Architectural and Planning Research |date=1995 |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=311–313 |jstor=43029170}}{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Dennis |title=Book review: The Man-Made City: The Land Use Confidence Game in Chicago Gerald D. Suttles, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1990, £19.95, xvi + 312pp |journal=The Sociological Review |date=1992 |volume=40 |issue=4 |pages=780–783 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-954X.1992.tb00411.x}}
- {{cite book |last1=Suttles |first1=Gerald D. |title=The Social Construction of Communities |url=https://archive.org/details/socialconstructi0000sutt |url-access=registration |date=1972 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=9780226781907 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/socialconstructi0000sutt/page/278 278]}}{{cite journal |last1=Milgram |first1=Stanley |title=The Social Construction of Communities. Gerald D. Suttles. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1972. x, 278 pp., illus. $9.50. Studies of Urban Society |journal=Science |date=November 1972 |volume=178 |issue=4060 |pages=494–495 |doi=10.1126/science.178.4060.494}}{{cite journal |last1=Caro |first1=Francis G. |title=GERALD D. SUTTLES. The Social Construction of Communities. Pp. 278. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972. $9.50 |journal=The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |date=May 1973 |volume=407 |issue=1 |pages=245–246 |doi=10.1177/000271627340700181|s2cid=144199453 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Suttles |first1=Gerald |title=The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City |url=https://archive.org/details/socialorderofslu00sutt |url-access=registration |date=1968 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=9780226781921 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/socialorderofslu00sutt/page/243 243]}}{{cite journal |last1=James |first1=Dorothy Buckton |title=Review: Poverty: Culture versus Class |journal=Comparative Politics |date=July 1972 |volume=4 |issue=4 |pages=589–599 |doi=10.2307/421368 |jstor=421368}}{{cite journal |last1=Boskoff |first1=Alan |title=GERALD SUTTLES. The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City. Pp. xxii, 243. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968. $8.95 |journal=The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |date=1969 |volume=384 |issue=1 |pages=180–181 |doi=10.1177/000271626938400161|s2cid=143005905 }}{{cite journal |last1=Barry |first1=M. Edwarda |title=The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City by Gerald D. Suttles |journal=The International Migration Review |date=1970 |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=110–112 |doi=10.2307/3092057 |jstor=3092057}}{{cite journal |last1=Bernard |first1=Jessie |title=THE SOCIAL ORDER OF THE SLUM: ETHNICITY AND TERRITORY IN THE INNER CITY. By Gerald D. Suttles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968. 243 pp. $8.95 |journal=Social Forces |date=September 1969 |volume=48 |issue=1 |pages=126–127 |doi=10.1093/sf/48.1.126}}
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