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Subject(s)

• City and town life [Browse]
• Social psychology [Browse]

Editor

• Ocejo, Richard E. [Browse]

Series

• Research in urban sociology ; v. 16. [More in this series]
• Research in urban sociology, 1047-0042 ; volume 16 [More in this series]

Summary note

Showcasing the ideas, analysis, and perspectives of experts in the method conducting research on a wide array of social phenomena in a variety of city contexts, this volume provides a look at the legacies of urban ethnography's methodological traditions and some of the challenges its practitioners face today.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Source of description

Print version record.

Contents

• Front Cover
• Urban Ethnography: Legacies and Challenges
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• About the Editors
• Volume Editor
• Series Editor
• About the Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Building Bridges in Urban Ethnography
• References
• Part I. The Legacy of the Chicago School
• From Chicago to Bologna: The Persistent Importance of the Chicago School in American and Italian Urban Sociology
• A Chicago School Overview: Community and Neighborhood
• The Chicago School Today: Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
• The Chicago Lesson: Some Interviews
• "Listening to the Residents": The Impact of the School in Italy and in the Bolognese Studies
• The Ethnographic and Ecological Attention to Space: Some Conclusions
• Global Ethnography: Lessons from the Chicago School
• Introduction
• Global Ethnography as a Critique of the Chicago School
• What Does It Mean to Study the "Global" Ethnographically?
• The Global in the Chicago School
• The Global as Central to City Life
• Relationship between Place and Theory
• Theoretical and Methodological Tools
• Toward a Pluralist Approach to Global Ethnography
• Part II. How to Train Ethnographers
• Becoming the City: Teaching Urban Ethnography and Mentoring Urban Ethnographers
• Teaching Ethnography
• Teaching to See the City
• Walking the City
• Interactions and Institutions
• Communities and Networks
• Teaching to Be Part of a Scholarly Community
• Conclusion
• Teaching and Learning the Craft: The Construction of Ethnographic Objects
• Constructing Objects
• Teaching About Construction
• Theory
• Puzzle
• Warrants
• Claims and Evidence
• Local Point of View
• Epistemological Vigilance
• Notes
• References.
• Part III. Thinking about Space and Place
• Place Exploration: Six Tensions to Better Conceptualize Place as a Social Actor in Urban Ethnography
• Place in Urbanist Ethnography
• The Case for Place as a Social Actor
• Tensions in Place Exploration
• In/Out
• Order/Disorder
• Public/Private
• Present/Past
• Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
• Discrete/Diffuse
• Interaction Order as Cultural Sociology within Urban Ethnography
• Interaction Order as Cultural Sociology Within Urban Ethnography
• The Significance of the Urban Condition
• The Ghetto as Disorganization
• Contemporary Views of Urban Disorder
• Local Interaction Order as a Cultural Sociology
• Double Consciousness and the Interaction Orders of Race
• Outsiders versus Local Interaction Orders
• Suggestions for a Practice-based Moral Order
• Interaction Order and the Right to the City
• Visibility is Survival: The Chocolate Maps of Black Gay Life in Urban Ethnography
• Settings and Methods
• Mapping and Finding Black Gay Los Angeles
• Seeing is Being, Seeing is Believing
• The Missing Middle Class: Race, Suburban Ethnography, and the Challenges of "Studying Up"
• Getting Started
• Gaining Access to Middle-class Blacks
• Managing in the Field
• The Inclusion of White Respondents
• Developing Theoretical Contributions
• Part IV. Layered Identities
• Black (American) Girl in the Banlieue: Doing Race and Ethnography as an American in France
• Identities and Intersections in Urban Ethnography
• Encountering Paris
• Encountering the Banlieues
• Insider and Outsider: Blackness As Visible in France
• Moving Forward
• Final Thoughts
• The Gendered Dynamics of Urban Ethnography: What the Researcher's "Location" Means for the Production of Ethnographic Knowledge
• Early Ethnographic Knowledge About the City
• Gender and Urban Spaces
• Urban Research Relationships
• The Migrant Ethnographer: When the Field Becomes Home
• The Migrant/Expatriate/Foreign/Asian Academic
• Becoming an Asia Expat
• Being "Shanghaied"
• "An Asian Woman Walks into a Bar …"
• The Temptations of the City
• Eating Alone Together
• Ethnography as Place Making and Home Making
• We Middlemen Migrant Ethnographers

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ISBN

• 1-78769-035-0
• 1-78769-033-4

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