Joan Shapiro
Biographic Data
| ID | 5510286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Shapiro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan |
| FAMILY NAME | Shapiro |
| SIGNATURE | SHAPIRO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Luke's Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reciprocal Dependence Between Single-Room Occupancy Managers and Tenants
Slum hotels, known as single-room-occupancy buildings (SROs), are the privately owned present-day replacement for poorhouses. They shelter an ethnically mixed and poverty-stricken population of single alcoholics, narcotic addicts, the chronically ill and disabled, the lonely aged, and the mentally ill and retarded. In nine such buildings studied, SRO managers and tenants were seen to have evolved a symbiotic relationship, both economically and in…
Dominant leaders among slum hotel residents
Deteriorated single-room-occupancy hotels collect as tenants the destitute who are unacceptable anywhere else. There live addicts, alcoholics, the crippled, the elderly, and the mentally ill, without families. Rich and intimate group life emerges nevertheless. Dominant leaders of the groups provide a matrix of physical and emotional care. Three such leaders, their characteristics, relationships, and functions are examined
Single-Room Occupancy
Unattached single individuals often cluster in urban rooming houses known as single-room-occupancy buildings. This paper describes a project initiated to observe the social structure of one such building and attempt to intervene in the lives of its tenants by means of a recreation-rehabilitation program
Single-Room Occupancy
Unattached single individuals often cluster in urban rooming houses known as single-room-occupancy buildings. This paper describes a project initiated to observe the social structure of one such building and attempt to intervene in the lives of its tenants by means of a recreation-rehabilitation program
Single-Room Occupancy
Unattached single individuals often cluster in urban rooming houses known as single-room-occupancy buildings. This paper describes a project initiated to observe the social structure of one such building and attempt to intervene in the lives of its tenants by means of a recreation-rehabilitation program
Dominant leaders among slum hotel residents
Deteriorated single-room-occupancy hotels collect as tenants the destitute who are unacceptable anywhere else. There live addicts, alcoholics, the crippled, the elderly, and the mentally ill, without families. Rich and intimate group life emerges nevertheless. Dominant leaders of the groups provide a matrix of physical and emotional care. Three such leaders, their characteristics, relationships, and functions are examined
Reciprocal Dependence Between Single-Room Occupancy Managers and Tenants
Slum hotels, known as single-room-occupancy buildings (SROs), are the privately owned present-day replacement for poorhouses. They shelter an ethnically mixed and poverty-stricken population of single alcoholics, narcotic addicts, the chronically ill and disabled, the lonely aged, and the mentally ill and retarded. In nine such buildings studied, SRO managers and tenants were seen to have evolved a symbiotic relationship, both economically and in…
Psychology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (2 works) · Occupancy (2 works) · Slum (2 works) · Architectural engineering (1 work)