The urban ethnography reader / edited by Mitchell Duneier, Philip Kasinitz, and Alexandra K. Murphy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duneier, Mitchell.

Kasinitz, Philip, 1957-

Murphy, Alexandra K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban.

City and town life.

Social psychology.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (898 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York City : Oxford University Press, [2014]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Urban Ethnography is the firsthand study of city life by investigators who immerse themselves in the worlds of the people about whom they write. Since its inception in the early twentieth century, this great tradition has helped define how we think about cities and city dwellers. The past few decades have seen an extraordinary revival in the field, as scholars and the public at large grapple with the increasingly complex and pressing issues that affect the ever-changing American city-from poverty to the immigrant experience, the changing nature of social bonds to mass incarceration, hyper-segregation to gentrification. As both a method of research and a form of literature, urban ethnography has seen a notable and important resurgence. This renewed interest demands a clear and comprehensive understanding of the history and development of the field to which this volume contributes by presenting a selection of past and present contributions to American urban ethnographic writing. Beginning with an original introduction highlighting the origins, practices, and significance of the field, editors Mitchell Duneier, Philip Kasinitz, and Alexandra Murphy guide the reader through the major and fascinating topics on which it has focused-from the community, public spaces, family, education, work, and recreation, to social policy, and the relationship between ethnographers and their subjects. An indispensable guide, The Urban Ethnography Reader provides an overview of how the discipline has grown and developed while offering students and scholars a selection of some of the finest social scientific writing on the life of the modern city. Book jacket.

Contents:

Credits

An introduction to urban ethnography / Mitchell Duneier, Philip Kasinitz and Alexandra K. Murphy

Finding community in the modern city

Chinatown / Jacob Riis

Social classes and amusements / W.E.B. Du Bois

Lower class : sex and family / St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton

Life styles / Ulf Hannerz

Patterns of black-white interaction / Harvey Molotch

No friends / John Jackson

In Tucuani, he goes crazy / Robert Smith

Grit and glamour / Richard Lloyd

Neighborhood symbiosis / Andrew Deener

Social worlds, public spaces

Patterns of collective action / Laud Humphreys

The territorial imperative / James Spradley and Brenda Mann

The black male in public / Elijah Anderson

Empowering the "gaze" : personal stereos and the hidden look / Michael Bull

Pissed off in L.A. / Jack Katz

Feeding the pigeons : sidewalk sociability in Greenwich village / Colin Jerolmack

Raising a family

Kinship and community / Michael Young and Peter Willmott

Swapping / Carol Stack

Growing up in groveland / Mary Patillo-McCoy

Towanda : making sense of early motherhood in west Baltimore / Patricia Fernandez-Kelly

Children and power during separation / Joanna Dreby

Schooling and the culture of control

Elements of a culture / Paul Willis

Leveled aspirations : social reproduction takes its toll / Jay MacLeod

Instituting the culture of control : disciplinary practices and order maintenance / Kathleen Nolan

The labelling hype : coming of age in the era of mass incarceration / Victor Rios

Getting paid

"Getting by" in hobohemia / Nels Anderson

The life cycle of the taxi-dancer / Paul Cressey

The laundryman's social world / Paul Siu

Men and jobs / Elliott Liebow

No shame in (this) game / Katherine Newman

Serving time / Peter Bearman

Mobility for the nonmobile : cell phone, technology, and childcare / Tamara Mose Brown

Getting the shit / Randol Contreras

Playing together : the serious side of recreation and leisure

Bowling and social ranking / William Foote Whyte

The professional dance musician and his audience / Howard Becker

Welcome to studio 104 & pitiful preliminaries / Loic Wacquant

The clubhouse and class cultures / Sherri Grasmuck

Race-ing men : boys, risk, and the politics of race / Amy Best

Cracking the code : race, class, and access to nightclubs in urban America / Reuben Buford May and Kenneth Sean Chaplin

Winning the bar : nightlife as a sporting ritual / David Grazian

Battlin' on the corner : techniques for sustaining play / Jooyoung Lee

"But does it have a point?" ethnography & social policy

The destruction of Boston's West End / Herbert Gans

Working the deuce / William Kornblum

Letter from a crackhouse / Terry Williams

Welfare / Kathryn Edin and Christopher Jencks

Missing the connection : social isolation and employment on the Brooklyn waterfront / Philip Kasinitz and Jan Rosenberg

On the run : wanted men in a Philadelphia ghetto / Alice Goffman

Ethnographers & their subjects

So what do you want from us here? / Barbara Myerhoff

Violating apartheid in the United States / Philippe Bourgois

Afterword / Hakim Hasan

The hustler and the hustled / Sudhir Venkatesh

Reflections on longitudinal ethnography and the families / Annette Lareau

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

Print version: Urban ethnography reader.

ISBN:

9780199325900

OCLC:

875865627

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.