Mitchell Duneier
Biographic Data
| ID | 224140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mitchell Duneier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mitchell |
| FAMILY NAME | Duneier |
| SIGNATURE | DUNEIER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 231 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Essentials of Sociology
Introduction to Sociology
Introduction to Sociology
Essentials of Sociology
The urban ethnography reader
Elijah Anderson on Race Relations and Public Space
Qualitative Methods
This chapter contains sections titled: References
How Not to Lie with Ethnography
This paper describes a simple strategy for doing more reliable ethnography: after fieldwork has commenced, investigators can use thought experiments to recognize inconvenient phenomena. Two examples are discussed: "the ethnographic trial" and the "inconvenience sample." The paper uses Clifford Geertz's classic "Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" as a case of how work could be made more reliable with such strategies. It highlights the value of syste…
Michael Apted's Up! series
Ethnography, the Ecological Fallacy, and the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave
In Chicago in July 1995, the Cook County Medical Examiner classified 739 heat-related deaths after one week of record high heat and humidity. In the 2002 book Heat Wave, Eric Klinenberg provides an influential account of these deaths. Klinenberg specifically contrasts mortalities in two neighboring communities, black North Lawndale and Latino South Lawndale. He explains the mortality difference by focusing on how elderly black residents, includin…
Garder sa tête sur le ring
Dans Corps et âmes. Carnets ethnographiques d'un apprenti boxeur Loic Wacquant a developpe une analyse extremement detaillee du milieu des boxeurs Noirs americains de Chicago au prix d'une rare immersion dans le milieu observe. S'il en salue les nombreux merites, le present article en critique toutefois les biais theoriques et methodologiques lies precisement au manque de distance du chercheur avec son objet
Voices from the sidewalk
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMitchell Duneier MITCHELL DUNEIER is Professor of Sociology at Princeton and Distinguished Professor in the Graduate Center, CUNYin conversation withLes Back LES BACK is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, London(photographs by Ovie Carter
Scrutinizing the Heat
poor, disproportionately African American, and isolated; government did not react soon enough, and the media missed the boat. All that neglect is indicative of a callous society that does not care about poor, old, isolates. We even blame the victims. Daley and other political leaders denied the heat was killing so many people, because it made the city look bad. The result was that people did not organize soon enough to save those most at risk. In…
What Kind of Combat Sport Is Sociology
Criticism is not merely a good thing; the discipline requires it to advance. Precisely because it is so important, criticism must be held to high schol-arly standards. As I will show, Wacquant’s review of Sidewalk quotes selectively and misleadingly and systematically misrepresents the work as a whole. The review is thoroughly inaccurate and unreliable. Forty years after Jane Jacobs wrote The Death and Life of Great Amer-ican Cities (1961), a wor…
Talking City Trouble
This article uses ethnography and conversation analysis to pinpoint what "goes wrong" when certain so-called street people "harass" pas-sersby. The technical properties of sidewalk encounters between particular black street men and middle-class white female residents of Greenwich Village are compared with interactions expected from studies of other conversation situations. The men attempt to initiate conversations and to deal with efforts to clos…
Slim's Table
Talking City Trouble
This article uses ethnography and conversation analysis to pinpoint what "goes wrong" when certain so-called street people "harass" pas-sersby. The technical properties of sidewalk encounters between particular black street men and middle-class white female residents of Greenwich Village are compared with interactions expected from studies of other conversation situations. The men attempt to initiate conversations and to deal with efforts to clos…
How Not to Lie with Ethnography
This paper describes a simple strategy for doing more reliable ethnography: after fieldwork has commenced, investigators can use thought experiments to recognize inconvenient phenomena. Two examples are discussed: "the ethnographic trial" and the "inconvenience sample." The paper uses Clifford Geertz's classic "Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" as a case of how work could be made more reliable with such strategies. It highlights the value of syste…
What Kind of Combat Sport Is Sociology
Criticism is not merely a good thing; the discipline requires it to advance. Precisely because it is so important, criticism must be held to high schol-arly standards. As I will show, Wacquant’s review of Sidewalk quotes selectively and misleadingly and systematically misrepresents the work as a whole. The review is thoroughly inaccurate and unreliable. Forty years after Jane Jacobs wrote The Death and Life of Great Amer-ican Cities (1961), a wor…
Ethnography, the Ecological Fallacy, and the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave
In Chicago in July 1995, the Cook County Medical Examiner classified 739 heat-related deaths after one week of record high heat and humidity. In the 2002 book Heat Wave, Eric Klinenberg provides an influential account of these deaths. Klinenberg specifically contrasts mortalities in two neighboring communities, black North Lawndale and Latino South Lawndale. He explains the mortality difference by focusing on how elderly black residents, includin…
Voices from the sidewalk
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMitchell Duneier MITCHELL DUNEIER is Professor of Sociology at Princeton and Distinguished Professor in the Graduate Center, CUNYin conversation withLes Back LES BACK is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, London(photographs by Ovie Carter
Scrutinizing the Heat
poor, disproportionately African American, and isolated; government did not react soon enough, and the media missed the boat. All that neglect is indicative of a callous society that does not care about poor, old, isolates. We even blame the victims. Daley and other political leaders denied the heat was killing so many people, because it made the city look bad. The result was that people did not organize soon enough to save those most at risk. In…
Garder sa tête sur le ring
Dans Corps et âmes. Carnets ethnographiques d'un apprenti boxeur Loic Wacquant a developpe une analyse extremement detaillee du milieu des boxeurs Noirs americains de Chicago au prix d'une rare immersion dans le milieu observe. S'il en salue les nombreux merites, le present article en critique toutefois les biais theoriques et methodologiques lies precisement au manque de distance du chercheur avec son objet
Elijah Anderson on Race Relations and Public Space
Michael Apted's Up! series
Slim's Table
Talking City Trouble
This article uses ethnography and conversation analysis to pinpoint what "goes wrong" when certain so-called street people "harass" pas-sersby. The technical properties of sidewalk encounters between particular black street men and middle-class white female residents of Greenwich Village are compared with interactions expected from studies of other conversation situations. The men attempt to initiate conversations and to deal with efforts to clos…
What Kind of Combat Sport Is Sociology
Criticism is not merely a good thing; the discipline requires it to advance. Precisely because it is so important, criticism must be held to high schol-arly standards. As I will show, Wacquant’s review of Sidewalk quotes selectively and misleadingly and systematically misrepresents the work as a whole. The review is thoroughly inaccurate and unreliable. Forty years after Jane Jacobs wrote The Death and Life of Great Amer-ican Cities (1961), a wor…
Scrutinizing the Heat
poor, disproportionately African American, and isolated; government did not react soon enough, and the media missed the boat. All that neglect is indicative of a callous society that does not care about poor, old, isolates. We even blame the victims. Daley and other political leaders denied the heat was killing so many people, because it made the city look bad. The result was that people did not organize soon enough to save those most at risk. In…
Ethnography, the Ecological Fallacy, and the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave
In Chicago in July 1995, the Cook County Medical Examiner classified 739 heat-related deaths after one week of record high heat and humidity. In the 2002 book Heat Wave, Eric Klinenberg provides an influential account of these deaths. Klinenberg specifically contrasts mortalities in two neighboring communities, black North Lawndale and Latino South Lawndale. He explains the mortality difference by focusing on how elderly black residents, includin…
Garder sa tête sur le ring
Dans Corps et âmes. Carnets ethnographiques d'un apprenti boxeur Loic Wacquant a developpe une analyse extremement detaillee du milieu des boxeurs Noirs americains de Chicago au prix d'une rare immersion dans le milieu observe. S'il en salue les nombreux merites, le present article en critique toutefois les biais theoriques et methodologiques lies precisement au manque de distance du chercheur avec son objet
Voices from the sidewalk
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMitchell Duneier MITCHELL DUNEIER is Professor of Sociology at Princeton and Distinguished Professor in the Graduate Center, CUNYin conversation withLes Back LES BACK is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, London(photographs by Ovie Carter
Michael Apted's Up! series
Qualitative Methods
This chapter contains sections titled: References
How Not to Lie with Ethnography
This paper describes a simple strategy for doing more reliable ethnography: after fieldwork has commenced, investigators can use thought experiments to recognize inconvenient phenomena. Two examples are discussed: "the ethnographic trial" and the "inconvenience sample." The paper uses Clifford Geertz's classic "Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" as a case of how work could be made more reliable with such strategies. It highlights the value of syste…
Elijah Anderson on Race Relations and Public Space
The urban ethnography reader
Essentials of Sociology
Introduction to Sociology
Introduction to Sociology
Essentials of Sociology
Sociology (10 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (2 works)