Researching City Life

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.

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 Saldana "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