The urban ethnography reader - Duneier, Mitchell (New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014)
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.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Sociology, Urban; City and town life; Social psychology