Ethnography in Context

VOLUME ONE: THE URBAN CONDITION Jelly's Place: An ethnographic memoir - Elijah Anderson Ethnography and Housing Studies - Adrian Franklin "People's Lives Are Hanging Here": Low wage workers share their experience of job loss - Amanda Gunn The Toilet Paper: Femininity, class And mis-recognition - Beverly Skeggs Inside the Empire: Ethnography of a global citadel in New York - Gregory Smithsimon Talking City Trouble: Interactional vandalism, social inequality, and the "urban interaction problem" - Mitch Duneier and Harvey Molotoch Keeping Ethnography Alive in an Urbanizing World - Roger Sanjek The Asshole - John van Maanen New Hobos or Neo-Romantic Fantasy? Urban Ethnography beyond the Neoliberal Disconnect - Teresa Gowan Hospital Ethnography: introduction - Sjaak van der Geest and Kaja Finkler Habits and Amusements of Costermongers - Henry Mayhew A Stranger at the Gate: Reflections of the Chicago School of Sociology - Nels Anderson Police Lying - Peter Manning Behind Bars: Social Control in Licensed Premises - Phil Hadfield The Hustler - Ned Polsky Wine Alley: The Sociology of a Dreadful Enclosure - Sean Damer A Night in a Taxi-Dance Hall - Paul Cressey East End Entrepreneurship - Dick Hobbs Empire of Scrounge: Inside the urban underground - Jeff Ferrell Being at Home: Space for belonging in a London caff - Suzanne Hall VOLUME TWO: WORK Work Culture in the Nursing Home: Adaptation and resistance among nursing aides - Nancy Foner Becoming a Firefighter - Matthew Desmond Bodies for Rent: Labor and marginality in Southern Louisiana - Rylan Higgins Working in the Fantasy Factory - Elizabeth Anne Wood Clinging to Collectivism? Some Ethnographic Shop-Floor Evidence from the British Lock Industry 1979-98 - John Black, Annie-Marie Greene and Peter Ackers The Driver: Adaptations and Identities in the Urban Worlds of Pizza Delivery Employees - Patrick Kinkade and Michael Katovitch Self for Sale: Notes on the work of Hollywood talent managers - Sasha David Organisational Time: Temporal demands and the experience of work in restaurant kitchens - Gary Alan Fine Service and Surveillance: Infrapolitics at Work Among Casino Cocktail Waitresses - Lorraine Bayard de Volo The Fate of Idealism in Medical School - Howard Becker and Blanche Geer Teaching Wedding Rules: How bridal workers negotiate control over their customers - Marisa Corrado Ladies, Flirts, and Tomboys: Strategies for managing sexual harassment in an underground coal mine - Kristen Yount The Bonus - Peter Bearman "The Dog You Deserve": Ambivalence in the K-9 officer/patrol dog relationship - Clinton Sanders Muck and magic: Cultural transformations in the world of farm animal veterinary surgeons - Lindsay Hamilton Class in Construction: London building workers, dirty work and physical cultures - Darren Thiel VOLUME THREE: BODY, SPORT & LEISURE Undressing the researcher: Feminism, Embodiment and Sexuality at a Queer Bathhouse Event - Alison Bain and Catherine Nash The Mundanity of Excellence: An ethnographic report on stratification and Olympic swimmers - Daniel Chambliss Looking Good, Feeling Good: The embodied pleasures of vibrant physicality - Lee Monaghan Pugs at Work: Bodily capital and bodily labor among professional boxers - Loic Waquant Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese cockfight - Clifford Geertz 'Hard' Women and 'Soft' Women: The social construction of identities among female boxers - Christine Mennesson The Female Bodybuilder as a Gender Outlaw - Chris Shilling and Tanya Bunsell 'We're Not From Norway': Football and civic pride in Bergen, Norway - Gary Armstrong and Hans Hognestad Skydiving and the Metaphorical Edge - James Hardie-Bick American Hegemony, Dominican Resistance and Baseball - Alan Klein Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities - Michael Messner The Occupational Culture of the Boxer - S Kirson Weinberg and Henry Arond Small Groups and Culture Creation: The idioculture of little league baseball teams - Gary Alan Fine Scotland's Tartan Army in Italy: The case for the carnivalesque - Richard Giulianotti A Woman's Place is in the Cardiovascular Room: Gender relations, the body and the gym - Shari Dworkin Sport Ethnography: A personal account - Susan Brownell VOLUME FOUR: DEVIANCE "Banana Time": Job satisfaction and informal interaction - Donald Roy Up it Up: Gender and the accomplishment of street robbery - Jody Miller One Hundred Dollars and a Dead Man: Ethical decision making in ethnographic fieldwork - Steven Vanderstaay Thieves, Convicts and the Inmate Culture - John Irwin and Donal Cressey Becoming a Marihuana User - Howard Becker Shifts and Oscillations in Deviant Careers: The case of upper-level drug dealers and smugglers - Patricia Adler and Peter Adler In Search of Masculinity: Violence, respect and sexuality among Puerto Rican crack dealers in East Harlem - Philippe Bourgois The Madam as Teacher: The training of house prostitutes - Barbara Sherman Heyl Crack to Heroin: Drug markets and transition - Bruce Jacobs Alibis and Aliases: Some notes on the 'motives' of fiddling bread salesmen - Jason Ditton Sociology of Vincent's Place - Carl Klockars A Successful Female Crack Dealer: Case study of a deviant career - Eloise Dunlap, Bruce Johnson and Ali Manwar Methods: The Sociologist as Voyeur - Laud Humphreys Taking Care of Business: The heroin users life on the streets - Edward Preble and John Casey