Researching City Life

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

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 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
The Setting and the Study
Recruiting Candidates for Inclusion
Becoming a Regular
"'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
Procedures
Women's Protective Strategies
"Exchange and Intimacy in the Inner City." - Ranita Ray
Fieldwork With Urban Youth
Siblings as a Source of Support
Exchange, Intimate Ties, and Conflict
"Do You See What I See? Examining a Collaborative Ethnography." - Reuben A.
Buford May and Mary Pattillo-McCoy
Comparing Notes
The Groveland Fieldhouse
Do You See What I See?
"Among the Colony: Ethnographic Fieldwork, Urban Bees and Intra-species
Mindfulness." - Lisa Jean Moore and Mary Kosut
Bees as Actors: Our "Other" Research Subjects
Beekeepers: Entrée to Bees Through Human Actors
Hive Checks: Meeting the Bees
Becoming Bee-Centered
"Exchange and Intimacy in the Inner City: Rethinking Kinship Ties of the
Urban Poor" - Ranita Ray
Group Dynamics and Allegiance
Intimacy, Boundaries, and Data
The Process and the Article
Introduction: Part II: Talking with Others in the City
"The Go-Along as Ethnographic Research Tool." - Margarethe Kusenbach
The Go-Along Method
The Thematic Potential of Go-Alongs
"Object and Walking Probes in Ethnographic Interviewing." - Jason Patrick
De Leon and Jeffrey H. Cohen
Material Probes
Object Probes
Walking Probes
What Is the Usefulness of the Material Probe?
"The Docent Method: A Grounded Theory Approach for Researching Place and
Health." - Jamie Suki Chang
The Docent Method
Docent Method Procedures in the Hitt Study
"Rescue Geography: Place making, Affect and Regeneration." - Phil Jones and
James Evans
Capturing Affective Connections to Place: Toward Rescue Geographies
Placing the Personal
"Place-Based Elicitation: Interviewing Graffiti Writers at the Scene of the
Crime." - Stefano Bloch
Narrative Disparity, Nonrepresentational Methods, and Extradiscursity
The Literature on Graffiti
Graffiti and (Il)Legality
Methods
Eliciting Embodied Responses and "Real" Reflection
"On the Heels of the Go-Along" - Margarethe Kusenbach
Origins and Context
Reception and Current Use
Promise and Potential
Introduction Part III: Stories from the City
"Local Culture" - Jaber F. Gubrium
Orienting to Local Culture
Into the Field
"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
Blue Chair Music and the Maintenance of a Lifestyle Enclave
Blue Chair as a Narrative Space
Alternative to What?
Making Sure the Scene Is Seen: Observation and Display as Modes of Enclave
Identity Work
Remembering the Seen
Leaving Blue Chair
"Narratives in the Old Neighborhood: An Ethnographic Study of an Urban
Neighborhood's Stories." - Robin Patric Clair
Methodological Background
The Covington Tragedy of March 4, 1908
The Tragedy of June 12, 1980
A Sequestered Story Challenges the Community
The Narrative Package: A Conclusion
"From Apple to Orange: Narratives of Small City Migration and Settlement
Among the Urban Middle Class." - Richard E. Ocejo
The Case
Migration Narratives
Settlement Narratives
"The Hobo to Doormen: The Characters of Qualitative Analysis, Past and
Present." - Jonathan R. Wynn
Emphases in the Study of Characters
The Limits and Possibilities of the Character
"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
Ethnography and Ethnographic Images
" 'The Camera Rolls': Using Third-Party Video in Field Research." - Nikki
Jones and Geoffrey Raymond
Key Questions
Defining Third-Party Video
Considering the Camera's Influence on Interaction
The Problems and Potential of a Third-Party Perspective
Institutional Ethics and Third-Party Video
"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
Sensory Methodologies
Concluding Remarks
"An Urban Tour: The Sensory Sociality of Ethnographic Place-Making." -
Sarah Pink
Ethnography as Place-Making
A Tour of Mold
After the "Event"
Ethnography Slow
Making Ethnographic Places
"Bringing Bodies Into Planning: Visceral Methods, Fear and Gender
Violence." - Elizabeth L. Sweet and Sara Ortiz Escalante
Exploring Visceral Methods of Planners
Shared Sensory Spatial Experiences: Bodies Appropriating Space in
Medellín and Barcelona
"Vibrational Affect: Sound Theory and Practice in Qualitative Research." -
Walter S. Gershon
Sound Theory: Resonance and Knowledge
Sound Method
Sounds Beyond Data
Sound/Work and Sonic Resonances
"My Music, My World: Using the MP3 Player to Shape Experience in London." -
Miriam Simun
Methodology
Analyzing Experiences
Implications
"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
Social Scenes in Cinema Studies
Scoping Happenings
Looking Back
The Exhibition Space
"Dramatizing Data: A Primer." - Johnny Saldaña
Plotting: The Conceptual Framework of Ethnodrama
Participants as Characters in Ethnodrama
Monologues and Dialogues: Dramatizing the Data
A Call for Collaboration and Quality in Ethnotheatre
"Augmented Fotonovelas: Creating New Media as Pedagogical and Social
Justice Tools." - LeighAnna Hidalgo
Introduction
Conclusion
"Teaching a Hip-Hop Ecology." - Michael J. Cermak
"Reflections on 'Social Cinema Scenes'" - Nirmal Puwar