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An unvarnished portrait of gentrification in an underprivileged, majority-minority small city Newburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of New York City in the Hudson River Valley. Like many other similarly sized cities across America, it has been left beset with poverty and crime after decades of decline, with few opportunities for its predominantly minority residents. Sixty Miles U...

Showcasing the ideas, analysis, and perspectives of experts in the method conducting research on a wide array of social phenomena in a variety of city contexts, this volume provides a look at the legacies of urban ethnography's methodological traditions and some of the challenges its practitioners face today.

The goal of this innovative book/website is to enable students to demonstrate mastery of investigative skills which, not only make them critical consumers of social research, but also able to investigate problems/issues in everyday life, on the job in a variety of public and private sector settings. In short, this text/website develops research skills vital to all students-as-citizens living in our information societies.

The goal of this innovative book/website is to enable students to demonstrate mastery of investigative skills which, not only make them critical consumers of social research, but also able to investigate problems/issues in everyday life, on the job in a variety of public and private sector settings. In short, this text/website develops research skills vital to all students-as-citizens living in our information societies.

First Published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In this in-depth and engaging book, Richard Ocejo takes you into the lives and workplaces of these people to examine how they are transforming these once-undesirable jobs into "cool" and highly specialized upscale occupational niches--and in the process complicating our notions about upward and downward mobility through work. He shows how they find meaning in these jobs by enacting a set of "cultural repertoires, " which include technical skil...

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