Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Duneier, Mitchell
• Kasinitz, Philip, 1957-

Description

viii, 876 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subjects

• Social psychology
• City and town life
• Sociology, Urban

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• 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 -- Slim and Bart / Mitchell Duneier -- No friends / John L. Jackson Jr. -- "In Tucuani, he goes crazy": the second generation renegotiates gender / Robert Courtney Smith -- Grit as glamour / Richard Lloyd -- Neighborhood symbiosis / Andrew Deener -- Social worlds, public spaces. Patterns of collective action / Laud Humphreys -- The territorial imperative / James P. Spradley and Brenda J. 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: "what goes round comes round" / Carol Stack -- Growing up in Groveland / Mary Patillo -- Towanda: making sense of early motherhood in west Baltimore / Patricia Fernández-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 M. Rios -- Getting paid. "Getting by" in hobohemia / Nels Anderson -- The life cycle of the taxi-dancer / Paul Cressey -- The laundryman's social world / Paul C.P. Siu -- Men and jobs / Elliott Liebow -- No shame in (this) game / Katherine S. Newman -- Serving time / Peter Bearman -- Mobility for the nonmobile: cell phones, 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 S. Becker -- Fight night at Studio 104 / Loïc Wacquant -- The clubhouse and class cultures: "bringing the infield in" / Sherri Grasmuck -- Race-ing men: boys, risk, and the politics of race / Amy L. Best -- Cracking the code: race, class, and access to nightclubs in urban America / Reuben A. Buford May and Kenneth Sean Chaplin -- Winning 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 and social policy. The destruction of Boston's West End / Herbert J. 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 Phililadelphia ghetto / Alice Goffman --
• Ethnographers and 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' reactions to Unequal childhoods / Annette Lareau.

Call Number

JFF 14-404

ISBN

• 9780199743575 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• 0199743576 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• 9780199743582 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
• 0199743584 (hbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

2013002495

OCLC

829645856

Title

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

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Duneier, Mitchell, editor.

Kasinitz, Philip, 1957- editor.

Research Call Number

JFF 14-404