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The Urban Ethnography Reader by Mitchell Duneier 9780199743575
RRP: $134.55Booksplease Price: $126.11Urban ethnography is one of the oldest traditions of American social science and has helped define how we think about cities and city dwellers since its inception in the early twentieth century... -
Sidewalk by Professor of Sociology Mitchell Duneier 9780374527259
RRP: $40.95Booksplease Price: $27.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527259Author Professor of Sociology Mitchell DuneierFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint... -
Slim's Table: Race, Respectability and Masculinity by Mitchell Duneier
Booksplease Price: $27.18At the Valois "See Your Food" cafeteria on Chicago's South Side, black and white men gather over cups of coffee and steam-table food. Mitchell Duneier, a sociologist, spent four years at the Valois... -
Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea by Professor of Sociology Mitchell Duneier 9780374536770
Booksplease Price: $25.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536770Author Professor of Sociology Mitchell DuneierFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint... -
On Writing Qualitative Research: Living by Words Margaret Anzul 9780750706032
RRP: $128.68Booksplease Price: $115.52This text is both about writing up qualitative research and is itself a qualitative study. The written reflections of students on the writing process and the interpretations and presentations of... -
Reflexive Ethnography: A Guide to Researching Selves and Others by Charlotte Aull Davies
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.51Reflexive Ethnography is a unique guide to ethnographic research for students of anthropology and related disciplines. It provides practical and comprehensive guidance to ethnographic research... -
Ethnography and the City: Readings on Doing Urban Fieldwork by Richard E. Ocejo 9780415808385
RRP: $132.58Booksplease Price: $118.27The only collection of its kind on the market, this reader gathers the work of some of the most esteemed urban ethnographers in sociology and anthropology. Broken down into sections that cover key... -
Bargaining for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City by Nicole P. Marwell
Booksplease Price: $55.67When middle-class residents fled American cities in the 1960s and '70s, government services and investment capital left, too. Countless urban neighborhoods thus entered phases of precipitous decline,... -
Bargaining for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City by Nicole P. Marwell 9780226509068
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.74When middle-class residents fled American cities in the 1960s and '70s, government services and investment capital left, too. Countless urban neighborhoods thus entered phases of precipitous decline,... -
Doormen by Peter Bearman 9780226039695
Booksplease Price: $233.28Little fascinates New Yorkers more than doormen, who know far more about tenants than tenants know about them. Doormen know what their tenants eat, what kind of movies they watch, whom they spend... -
Doormen by Peter Bearman
Booksplease Price: $59.34Little fascinates New Yorkers more than doormen, who know far more about tenants than tenants know about them. Doormen know what their tenants eat, what kind of movies they watch, whom they spend... -
Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City Richard Lloyd (Vanderbilt University, USA) 9780415870979
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $92.31Neo-Bohemia brings the study of bohemian culture down to the street level, while maintaining a commitment to understanding broader historical and economic urban contexts. Simultaneously readable and... -
How the Other Half Works: Immigration and the Social Organization of Labor by Roger Waldinger
RRP: $52.65Booksplease Price: $44.69How the Other Half Works solves the riddle of America's contemporary immigration puzzle: why an increasingly high-tech society has use for so many immigrants who lack the basic skills that today's... -
Talking at Trena's: Everyday Conversations at an African American Tavern by Reuben A. Buford May 9780814756720
Booksplease Price: $55.71Talking at Trena's is an ethnography conducted in a bar in an African American, middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's southside. May's work focuses on how the mostly black, working- and middle-class... -
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Talking at Trena's: Everyday Conversations at an African American Tavern by Reuben A. Buford May 9780814756720 [USED COPY]
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $6.53Talking at Trena's is an ethnography conducted in a bar in an African American, middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's southside. May's work focuses on how the mostly black, working- and middle-class... -
Hard Rain: Bob Dylan, Oral Cultures, and the Meaning of History by Alessandro Portelli
RRP: $179.40Booksplease Price: $141.24Bob Dylan's iconic 1962 song "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" stands at the crossroads of musical and literary traditions. A visionary warning of impending apocalypse, it sets symbolist imagery within a... -
Hard Rain: Bob Dylan, Oral Cultures, and the Meaning of History by Alessandro Portelli 9780231205931
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $36.21Bob Dylan's iconic 1962 song "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" stands at the crossroads of musical and literary traditions. A visionary warning of impending apocalypse, it sets symbolist imagery within a... -
Autistic Intelligence: Interaction, Individuality, and the Challenges of Diagnosis by Douglas W Maynard
Booksplease Price: $48.36An examination of diagnostic processes that questions how we can better understand autism as a category and the unique forms of intelligence it glosses. As autism has grown in prevalence, so too... -
Living through the Hoop: High School Basketball, Race, and the American Dream by Reuben A. Buford May 9780814795965
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $46.37A hopeful and inspiring treatise on the power of playing basketball When high school basketball player LeBron James was selected as the top pick in the National Basketball Association draft of 2003,... -
Living through the Hoop: High School Basketball, Race, and the American Dream by Reuben A. Buford May 9780814757291
Booksplease Price: $176.61A hopeful and inspiring treatise on the power of playing basketball When high school basketball player LeBron James was selected as the top pick in the National Basketball Association draft of 2003,... -
No Room of Her Own: Women's Stories of Homelessness, Life, Death, and Resistance by Desiree Hellegers 9780230116580
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $90.25This oral history collection brings together extended interviews with fifteen women, illuminating the part that gender roles play in ensnaring women in cycles of domestic abuse and homelessness and... -
The Comfort of Things Daniel Miller (University College London, UK) 9780745644035
Booksplease Price: $100.44What do we know about ordinary people in our towns and cities, about what really matters to them and how they organize their lives today? This book visits an ordinary street and looks into thirty... -
No Room of Her Own: Women's Stories of Homelessness, Life, Death, and Resistance by Desiree Hellegers 9780230116573
Booksplease Price: $90.25This oral history collection brings together extended interviews with fifteen women, illuminating the part that gender roles play in ensnaring women in cycles of domestic abuse and homelessness and... -
The Comfort of Things Daniel Miller (University College London, UK) 9780745644042
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $28.68What do we know about ordinary people in our towns and cities, about what really matters to them and how they organize their lives today? This book visits an ordinary street and looks into thirty... -
Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male by Elijah Anderson 9780812220179
Booksplease Price: $57.33Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Typically residing in areas of concentrated urban poverty, too many young black men are trapped in a horrific cycle that includes active... -
Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life by Mario Luis Small 9780195384352
Booksplease Price: $70.32Social capital theorists have shown that inequality arises in part because some people enjoy larger, more supportive or otherwise more useful networks. But why do some people have better networks... -
Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life by Mario Luis Small 9780199764099
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $37.48Social capital theorists have shown that some people do better than others in part because they enjoy larger, more supportive, or otherwise more useful networks. But why do some people have better... -
Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community by Tamara R. Mose 9780814791431
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Stroll through any public park in Brooklyn on a weekday afternoon and you will see black women with white children at every turn. Many of these women are of Caribbean descent, and they have long been... -
Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family by Bruce Haynes
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $129.36Down the Up Staircase tells the story of one Harlem family across three generations, connecting its journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem over the past century. Bruce D... -
Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh 9780674030718
RRP: $52.55Booksplease Price: $45.40In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate, dangerous, and remarkable ways in which a community... -
The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality by Thomas M. Shapiro 9780195181388
RRP: $38.01Booksplease Price: $30.89Over the past three decades, racial prejudice in America has declined significantly and many African American families have seen a steady rise in employment and annual income. But alongside these... -
Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing by Harvey Molotch
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79A sociological study of public restrooms So much happens in the public toilet that we never talk about. Finding the right door, waiting in line, and using the facilities are often undertaken with... -
Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing by Harvey Molotch 9780814795880
RRP: $167.70Booksplease Price: $135.70A sociological study of public restrooms So much happens in the public toilet that we never talk about. Finding the right door, waiting in line, and using the facilities are often undertaken with... -
Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart by Adam Reich
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $153.09Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce-young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one... -
Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart by Adam Reich 9780231188432
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $41.73Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce-young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one... -
There Goes the Gayborhood? by Amin Ghaziani 9780691168418
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $47.15Gay neighborhoods, like the legendary Castro District in San Francisco and New York's Greenwich Village, have long provided sexual minorities with safe havens in an often unsafe world. But as our... -
There Goes the Gayborhood? by Amin Ghaziani 9780691158792
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $76.73Gay neighborhoods, like the legendary Castro District in San Francisco and New York's Greenwich Village, have long provided sexual minorities with safe havens in an often unsafe world. But as our...