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Tyneside neighbourhoods : deprivation, social life and social behaviour in one British city /

"Nettle's book presents the results of five years of comparative ethnographic fieldwork in two different neighbourhoods of the same British city, Newcastle upon Tyne. The neighbourhoods are only a few kilometres apart, yet whilst one is relatively affluent, the other is amongst the most ec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nettle, Daniel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, ©2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction ; Prelude ; About this book ; The city context: Newcastle upon Tyne ; Motivations for the Tyneside Neighbourhoods Project ; Competing narratives: Kropotkin versus the Mountain People
  • 2. Study sites and methods ; The study neighbourhoods ; Development of methods: General considerations ; Description of datasets
  • 3. Mutual aid ; Introduction ; Round one: Social interactions in the streets ; Round two: Self-reported social capital ; Round three: Dictator Games ; Close to the edge ; The return of the lost letter, and other encounters
  • 4. Crime and punishment ; Introduction The spreading of disorder and the maintenance of antisocial behaviour ; Littering and crime reports ; The Theft Game ; An experiment with information ; The strange case of the norms effect that didn't happen
  • 5. From cradle to grave ; Introduction ; Children's use of the streets ; Social trust through childhood ; Social trust through adulthood ; No country for old men
  • 6. Being there ; Introduction ; Perceptual experience and context sensitivity ; An experiment with minibuses ; The social diet
  • 7. Conclusions and reflections ; Introduction ; Summary and implications of findings ; The economic grit and the cultural pearl ; Structural change versus nudges ; The ethics of representation and the value of ethnography
  • References
  • Index.