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The Urban Ethnography Reader
. Ed(S): Duneier, Mitchell; Kasinitz, Philip; Murphy, Alexandra R.
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Paperback. The Urban Ethnography Reader assembles the very best of American ethnographic writing, from classic works to contemporary research, and aims to present ethnography as social science, social history, and literature, rather than purely as a methodology. Editor(s): Duneier, Mitchell; Kasinitz, Philip; Murphy, Alexandra R. Num Pages: 896 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFSG; JHB; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 251 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1524.
Urban 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. Renewed interest in urban poverty, the immigrant experience, and gentrification among the public and scholars alike has focused attention on qualitative methods in the social sciences, and the field of urban ethnography in particular receives more attention now than at any point since its inception. The Urban Ethnography Reader assembles the very best of American ethnographic writing, from classic works to contemporary research, and aims to ... Read more
Urban 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. Renewed interest in urban poverty, the immigrant experience, and gentrification among the public and scholars alike has focused attention on qualitative methods in the social sciences, and the field of urban ethnography in particular receives more attention now than at any point since its inception. The Urban Ethnography Reader assembles the very best of American ethnographic writing, from classic works to contemporary research, and aims to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
896
Condition
New
Number of Pages
896
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199743575
SKU
V9780199743575
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99-39
About . Ed(S): Duneier, Mitchell; Kasinitz, Philip; Murphy, Alexandra R.
Mitchell Duneier is Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. Philip Kasinitz is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center and Hunter College of the City University of New York. Alexandra K. Murphy is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan.
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