Ethnography Unbound : Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolis / Burawoy/Burton; ed. by Kathryn J. Fox, Alice Burton, Michael Burawoy, Ann Arnett Ferguson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burawoy/Burton, Author.

Contributor:

Arnett Ferguson, Ann, Editor.

Burawoy, Michael, Editor.

Burton, Alice, Editor.

Fox, Kathryn J., Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1994]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this powerful volume, ten original ethnographies explore two important issues: the ways in which people confront the threats and disruptions of contemporary life, and the ways in which researchers can most effectively study the modern metropolis. With its twofold agenda, the volume emerges as a multi-layered dialogue between researcher and researched, participant and observer, educator and educated.These essays, produced in a refreshing collaborative effort by a senior scholar and ten graduate students, examine many facets of American urban life, among them new social movements that mobilize and work on behalf of people with AIDS and that fight against nuclear war; the decisive roles South East Asian women play in building new immigrant communities; and school programs for African-American children.Ethnography Unbound also explores the value of participant observation and the extended case method in social research, underlining how these methodological approaches deepen and enrich scholarship in the social sciences.The book poses theoretical and methodological questions in an open and lucid manner, prodding a rethinking of ethnographic research. Scholars and students alike will find it an essential text for the study of methodology and contemporary American life.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ONE Introduction

TWO Reconstructing Social Theories 000

ONE New Social Movements

Introduction to Part 1

THREE Silence, Death, and the Invisible Enemy: AIDS Activism and Social Movement "Newness"

FOUR "Fight the Power": Two Groups Mobilize for Peace

PART TWO Reorganizing the Workplace

Introduction to Part 2

FIVE Dividing Up the Struggle: The Consequences of "Split" Welfare Work for Union Activism

SIX Managing Without Managers: Crisis and Resolution in a Collective Bakery

PART THREE New Immigrants

Introduction to Part 3

SEVEN A Maid by Any Other Name: The Transformation of "Dirty Work" by Central American Immigrants

EIGHT "Unlikely Heroes": The Evolution of Female Leadership in a Cambodian Ethnic Enclave

PART FOUR From Classroom to Community

Introduction to Part 4

NINE Mr. Henry Makes a Deal: Negotiated Teaching in a Junior High School

TEN Coming Together: An Interactive Model of Schooling

PART FIVE Researching the Researchers

Introduction to Part 5

ELEVEN The Politics of Prevention: Ethnographers Combat AIDS Among Drug Users

TWELVE Convincing Sociologists: Values and Interests in the Sociology of Knowledge

Conclusion

THIRTEEN The Extended Case Method

Appendix

FOURTEEN Teaching Participant Observation

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 09. Dez 2023)

ISBN:

0-520-35470-2

OCLC:

1414457346