Doormen

Author : Peter Bearman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226039718

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Doormen by Peter Bearman Pdf

Little fascinates New Yorkers more than doormen, who know far more about tenants than tenants know about them. Doormen know what their tenants eat, what kind of movies they watch, whom they spend time with, whether they drink too much, and whether they have kinky sex. But if doormen are unusually familiar with their tenants, they are also socially very distant. In Doormen, Peter Bearman untangles this unusual dynamic to reveal the many ways that tenants and doormen negotiate their complex relationship. Combining observation, interviews, and survey information, Doormen provides a deep and enduring ethnography of the occupational role of doormen, the dynamics of the residential lobby, and the mundane features of highly consequential social exchanges between doormen and tenants. Here, Bearman explains why doormen find their jobs both boring and stressful, why tenants feel anxious about how much of a Christmas bonus their neighbors give, and how everyday transactions small and large affect tenants' professional and informal relationships with doormen. In the daily life of the doorman resides the profound, and this book provides a brilliant account of how tenants and doormen interact within the complex world of the lobby.

Author : Elvis Webley
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781452576626

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Hooligans, Doormen, and the Ten-Metre Walk by Elvis Webley Pdf

I was once part of a notorious group that visited football grounds around Britain. Meeting with the opposition fans for—well, let’s just say it wasn’t to share stories over a cup of tea and biscuits! I was also a very well-known doorman working the rave and city centre nightclubs. I have compiled some interesting scenarios that we encounter during our lives, and I will try to offer some help and advice, to anyone who is willing to listen. You’re in a situation where running is out the question and the only means of survival is to fight for your life. This is the situation you’ve been eagerly waiting for; how will you react? Will you stand and battle, which could result in a loss of life, or will you run and risk serious retribution? Whatever decision you make, represents the passing or failing of life’s Ten-Metre Walk. This is the distance between battle and bottle. It also represents the fight-or-flight syndrome, or a possible flatline in the local hospital. The situation faced is met by many doormen as well. “Shall we sort these lads out, or do we let them take the piss?” Either scenario is met with the Ten-Metre Walk. How will you make yours?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412822473

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Emotions in Command by Anonim Pdf

This book is part of a quest for a general theory of organizations valid in all cultures. Central to Frank Salter's investigation is the question of social power: why people obey their superiors. His approach is to locate the nature of organizational power in the behavioral details of hierarchical interactions in the institutional settings in which they occur. Salter begins by noting the extensive research that points to hierarchy as being a necessary component of organization and proceeds to an analysis rendered in universals of primary emotions and behaviors of dominance and affiliation. The first five chapters are theoretical, the last seven empirical. He reviews the social science literature showing the place of ethological methods and concepts, then aspects of the evolution and physiology of dominance and affiliation. Salter then introduces the emotional underpinnings of dominance and affiliation, and applies these concepts in a summary of the literature on interpersonal signaling. He describes the methods used, drawing parallels with classical ethology, anthropology, and sociology. The empirical section begins with a short chapter examining the simple commands given in a military parade. Chapter 7 analyses nightclub doormen's use of dominance in dealing with troublesome patrons. Chapter 8 describes the giving and receiving of commands in artistic rehearsals, and finds generally soft, appeased commands. Chapters 9 and 10 analyze courts and meetings respectively, finding both blunt and softened commands. Chapter 11 reports preliminary observations of command in general government bureaucracy, a setting which combines many organizational techniques in a highly articulated infrastructure. The concluding chapter summarizes the data and adopts a comparative method in searching for relationships between structural variables of institutional dominance and behavioral variables of command aggression, subordinate submission and resistance, and task characteristics. Provocative and well written, Emotions in Command will appeal to students and researchers in sociology, anthropology, and social and organizational-industrial psychology. Frank Kemp Salter is an Australian political scientist who has been a researcher with the Max Planck Society, Andechs, Germany since 1991 and is author of On Genetic Interests which is published by Transaction.

Author : Mitchell Duneier,Philip Kasinitz,Alexandra Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199325900

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The Urban Ethnography Reader by Mitchell Duneier,Philip Kasinitz,Alexandra Murphy Pdf

Urban ethnography is the firsthand study of city life by investigators who immerse themselves in the worlds of the people about whom they write. Since its inception in the early twentieth century, this great tradition has helped define how we think about cities and city dwellers. The past few decades have seen an extraordinary revival in the field, as scholars and the public at large grapple with the increasingly complex and pressing issues that affect the ever-changing American city-from poverty to the immigrant experience, the changing nature of social bonds to mass incarceration, hyper-segregation to gentrification. As both a method of research and a form of literature, urban ethnography has seen a notable and important resurgence. This renewed interest demands a clear and comprehensive understanding of the history and development of the field to which this volume contributes by presenting a selection of past and present contributions to American urban ethnographic writing. Beginning with an original introduction highlighting the origins, practices, and significance of the field, editors Mitchell Duneier, Philip Kasinitz, and Alexandra Murphy guide the reader through the major and fascinating topics on which it has focused -- from the community, public spaces, family, education, work, and recreation, to social policy, and the relationship between ethnographers and their subjects. An indispensable guide, The Urban Ethnography Reader provides an overview of how the discipline has grown and developed while offering students and scholars a selection of some of the finest social scientific writing on the life of the modern city.

Author : Gay Talese
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345467232

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Fame and Obscurity by Gay Talese Pdf

"Fascinating . . . Poignant." The Wall Street Journal In this extraordinary work of insight and interviews, bestselling author Gay Talese shares with us the lives of those we don't know and those we might wish we did: Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio, Manhattan mobsters, Bowery bums, and many others -- fascinating men and women who define our country's spirit and lead us to an understanding of ourselves as a nation.

Author : New York (N.Y.). Common Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010379506

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Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York by New York (N.Y.). Common Council Pdf

Author : Stefan Timmermans,Iddo Tavory
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226817729

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Data Analysis in Qualitative Research by Stefan Timmermans,Iddo Tavory Pdf

From two experts in the field comes an accessible, how-to guide that will help researchers think more productively about the relation between theory and data at every stage of their work. In Data Analysis in Qualitative Research, Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans provide a how-to guide filled with tricks of the trade for researchers who hope to take excellent qualitative data and transform it into powerful scholarship. In their previous book, Abductive Analysis: Theorizing Qualitative Research, Timmermans and Tavory offered a toolkit for innovative theorizing in the social sciences. In this companion, they go one step further to show how to uncover the surprising revelations that lie waiting in qualitative data—in sociology and beyond. In this book, they lay out a series of tools designed to help both novice and expert scholars see and understand their data in surprising ways. Timmermans and Tavory show researchers how to “stack the deck” of qualitative research in favor of locating surprising findings that may lead to theoretical breakthroughs, whether by engaging with theory, discussing research strategies, or walking the reader through the process of coding data. From beginning to end of a research project, Data Analysis in Qualitative Research helps social scientists pinpoint the most promising paths to take in their approach.

Author : Augustine E. Costello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : MINN:31951P00778856X

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Our Police Protectors by Augustine E. Costello Pdf

Includes over two hundred plates illustrating the police at work and early police stations.

Author : New York (N.Y.). Common Council,David Thomas Valentine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : OXFORD:591004773

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Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York for the Year 1864 by New York (N.Y.). Common Council,David Thomas Valentine Pdf

Author : New York (N.Y.). Common Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : UOM:39015048901444

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Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York by New York (N.Y.). Common Council Pdf

Author : Daniel Little
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783487417

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New Directions in the Philosophy of Social Science by Daniel Little Pdf

An accessible introduction to the latest developments and debates in the philosophy of social science.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LLMC:NYADN64BJ502

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In the Matter of WIlliam W. Farley, as State Commisioner of Excise, for an Order Revoking and Cancelling Liquor tas Certificate No. 24492, Issued to Eugene O. Mosher by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patricia A. Banks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351356312

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Race, Ethnicity, and Consumption by Patricia A. Banks Pdf

Race, Ethnicity, and Consumption: A Sociological View looks at the central concerns of consumer culture through the lens of race and ethnicity. Each chapter illustrates the connections between race, ethnicity, and consumption by focusing on a specific theme: identity, crossing cultures, marketing and advertising, neighborhoods, discrimination, and social activism. By exploring issues such as multicultural marketing, cultural appropriation, consumer racial profiling, urban food deserts, and racialized political consumerism, students, scholars, and other curious readers will gain insight on the ways that racial and ethnic boundaries shape, and are shaped by, consumption. This book goes beyond the typical treatments of race and ethnicity in introductory texts on consumption by not only providing a comprehensive overview of the major theories and concepts that sociologists use to make sense of consumption, race, and ethnicity, but also by examining these themes within distinctly contemporary contexts such as digital platforms and activism. Documenting the complexities and contradictions within consumer culture, Race, Ethnicity, and Consumption is an excellent text for sociology courses on consumers and consumption, race and ethnicity, the economy, and inequality. It will also be an informative resource for courses on consumer culture in the broader social sciences, marketing, and the humanities.

Author : Dr Michael Atkinson,Dr Lee F Monaghan
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409435006

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Challenging Myths of Masculinity by Dr Michael Atkinson,Dr Lee F Monaghan Pdf

Drawing on extensive field research conducted in North America and Britain over a twenty year period, this book challenges masculine myth making. Mindful of a rich sociological tradition that seeks to understand the social world as lived and experienced, the authors provide insights that are likely to challenge common perceptions of various groups of men and boys, their diverse physical cultures, shared ways of being and identities.

Author : Heather Akou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-22
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350349407

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On the Job by Heather Akou Pdf

Through a variety of archival documents, artefacts, illustrations, and references to primary and secondary literature, On the Job explores the changing styles, business practices, and lived experiences of the people who make, sell, and wear service-industry uniforms in the United States. It highlights how the uniform business is distinct from the fashion business, including how manufacturing developed outside of the typical fashion hubs such as New York City; and gives attention to the ways that various types of employers (small business, corporate, government and others) differ in their ambitions and regulations surrounding uniforms. On the Job sheds new light on an understudied yet important field of dress and clothing within everyday life, and is an essential addition to any fashion historian's library, appealing to all those interested in material culture, the service industry, heritage and history.