Researching City Life

An Urban Field Methods Text Reader
Herausgeber: Borer, Michael Ian Ian; Schafer, Tyler S. S.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book aims to specifically address the uses and roles of qualitative research in cities, including carefully selected and edited readings that cover participant observation, interviewing, narrative analysis, visual and sensory methods, and methods for (re)presenting the city. The book also features short original essays from key authors, and introductions from the editors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 188mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 860g
• ISBN-13: 9781506355436
• ISBN-10: 1506355439
• Artikelnr.: 65190159

Autorenporträt

Tyler Schafer is an Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Stanislaus. He is the author of Community Gardening in an Unlikely City: The Struggle to Grow Together in Las Vegas (Lexington Books 2021). His work has been published in Sociology Compass, Qualitative Sociology Review, and the Journal of Religion & Media. Michael Ian Borer is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is author of Faithful to Fenway: Believing in Boston, Baseball, and America's Most Beloved Ballpark (NYU Press 2008) and Vegas Brews: Craft Beer and the Birth of a Local Scene (NYU Press 2019). He also co-authored Urban People and Places: The Sociology of Cities, Suburbs, and Towns (SAGE 2014) and Sociology in Everyday Life (Waveland 2016). Borer served as the 2021-2022 President of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Researching Urban People and Places - Tyler S. Schafer and
Michael Ian Borer
Introduction: Part I: Being with Others in the City
"Pet-Facilitated Interaction in a Public Setting." - Douglas M. Robins,
Clinton R. Sanders, and Spencer E. Cahill
"'Cooling Out' Men in Singles Bars and Nightclubs: Observations on the
Interpersonal Survival Strategies of Women in Public Places." - David A.
Snow, Cherylon Robinson, and Patricia L. McCall
"Exchange and Intimacy in the Inner City." - Ranita Ray
"Do You See What I See? Examining a Collaborative Ethnography." - Reuben A.
Buford May and Mary Pattillo-McCoy
"Among the Colony: Ethnographic Fieldwork, Urban Bees and Intra-species
Mindfulness." - Lisa Jean Moore and Mary Kosut
"Exchange and Intimacy in the Inner City: Rethinking Kinship Ties of the
Urban Poor" - Ranita Ray
Introduction: Part II: Talking with Others in the City
"The Go-Along as Ethnographic Research Tool." - Margarethe Kusenbach
"Object and Walking Probes in Ethnographic Interviewing." - Jason Patrick
De Leon and Jeffrey H. Cohen
"The Docent Method: A Grounded Theory Approach for Researching Place and
Health." - Jamie Suki Chang
"Rescue Geography: Place making, Affect and Regeneration." - Phil Jones and
James Evans
"Place-Based Elicitation: Interviewing Graffiti Writers at the Scene of the
Crime." - Stefano Bloch
"On the Heels of the Go-Along" - Margarethe Kusenbach
Introduction Part III: Stories from the City
"Local Culture" - Jaber F. Gubrium
"Going Straight: The Story of a Young Inner-City Ex-Convict." - Elijah
Anderson
"Streets, Sidewalks, Stores, and Stories: Narrative and Uses of Urban
Space." - Timothy A. Simpson
"Narratives in the Old Neighborhood: An Ethnographic Study of an Urban
Neighborhood's Stories." - Robin Patric Clair
"From Apple to Orange: Narratives of Small City Migration and Settlement
Among the Urban Middle Class." - Richard E. Ocejo
"The Hobo to Doormen: The Characters of Qualitative Analysis, Past and
Present." - Jonathan R. Wynn
"Thoughts on "The Hobo to Doormen: The Characters of Qualitative Analysis,
Past and Present" - Jonathan R. Wynn
Introduction Part IV: Visualizing the City
"Ways of Seeing, Knowing, and Showing" - Sarah Pink
" 'The Camera Rolls': Using Third-Party Video in Field Research." - Nikki
Jones and Geoffrey Raymond
"Visualizing Gendered Sports Fandom." - Michael Ian Borer
"Researching Urban Space, Reflecting on Advertising: A Photo Essay." - Anne
M. Cronin
Introduction Part V: Sensing the City
"The Sensuous City: Sensory Methodologies in Urban Ethnographic Research."
- Kelvin E.Y. Low
"An Urban Tour: The Sensory Sociality of Ethnographic Place-Making." -
Sarah Pink
"Bringing Bodies Into Planning: Visceral Methods, Fear and Gender
Violence." - Elizabeth L. Sweet and Sara Ortiz Escalante
"Vibrational Affect: Sound Theory and Practice in Qualitative Research." -
Walter S. Gershon
"My Music, My World: Using the MP3 Player to Shape Experience in London." -
Miriam Simun
"Reflections on an Urban Tour" - Sarah Pink
Introduction Part VI: Representing the City
"Putting on a Public Face." - Stephanie Coontz
"Social Cinema Scenes." - Nirmal Puwar
"Dramatizing Data: A Primer." - Johnny Saldaña
"Augmented Fotonovelas: Creating New Media as Pedagogical and Social
Justice Tools." - LeighAnna Hidalgo
"Teaching a Hip-Hop Ecology." - Michael J. Cermak
"Reflections on 'Social Cinema Scenes'" - Nirmal Puwar