Urban Ethnography : Legacies and Challenges.
Ocejo, Richard E.
Urban Ethnography : Legacies and Challenges. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (226 pages) - Research in Urban Sociology Series ; v.16 . - Research in Urban Sociology Series .
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 -- References -- 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 -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part II. How to Train Ethnographers -- Becoming the City: Teaching Urban Ethnography and Mentoring Urban Ethnographers -- Introduction -- 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 -- References -- Teaching and Learning the Craft: The Construction of Ethnographic Objects -- Introduction -- Constructing Objects -- Teaching About Construction -- Theory -- Puzzle -- Warrants -- Claims and Evidence -- Local Point of View -- Epistemological Vigilance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References. Part III. Thinking about Space and Place -- Place Exploration: Six Tensions to Better Conceptualize Place as a Social Actor in Urban Ethnography -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- References -- 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 -- Conclusion -- References -- Visibility is Survival: The Chocolate Maps of Black Gay Life in Urban Ethnography -- Introduction -- Settings and Methods -- Mapping and Finding Black Gay Los Angeles -- Seeing is Being, Seeing is Believing -- References -- The Missing Middle Class: Race, Suburban Ethnography, and the Challenges of "Studying Up" -- Introduction -- Getting Started -- Gaining Access to Middle-class Blacks -- Managing in the Field -- The Inclusion of White Respondents -- Developing Theoretical Contributions -- Conclusion -- References -- 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 -- Notes -- References. 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 -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 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 -- References.
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.
9781787690332
Sociology, Urban.
Electronic books.
HT101-395
307.76
Urban Ethnography : Legacies and Challenges. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (226 pages) - Research in Urban Sociology Series ; v.16 . - Research in Urban Sociology Series .
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 -- References -- 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 -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part II. How to Train Ethnographers -- Becoming the City: Teaching Urban Ethnography and Mentoring Urban Ethnographers -- Introduction -- 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 -- References -- Teaching and Learning the Craft: The Construction of Ethnographic Objects -- Introduction -- Constructing Objects -- Teaching About Construction -- Theory -- Puzzle -- Warrants -- Claims and Evidence -- Local Point of View -- Epistemological Vigilance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References. Part III. Thinking about Space and Place -- Place Exploration: Six Tensions to Better Conceptualize Place as a Social Actor in Urban Ethnography -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- References -- 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 -- Conclusion -- References -- Visibility is Survival: The Chocolate Maps of Black Gay Life in Urban Ethnography -- Introduction -- Settings and Methods -- Mapping and Finding Black Gay Los Angeles -- Seeing is Being, Seeing is Believing -- References -- The Missing Middle Class: Race, Suburban Ethnography, and the Challenges of "Studying Up" -- Introduction -- Getting Started -- Gaining Access to Middle-class Blacks -- Managing in the Field -- The Inclusion of White Respondents -- Developing Theoretical Contributions -- Conclusion -- References -- 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 -- Notes -- References. 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 -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 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 -- References.
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.
9781787690332
Sociology, Urban.
Electronic books.
HT101-395
307.76