Harlem Supers - The Social Life of a Community in Transition

Zusatztext     Informationen zum Autor Terry Williams is Fellow at Yale University, USA, and Professor at the New School for Social Research, USA. Klappentext Superintendents play a large role in the formation of relationships and networks within their neighborhood; and yet! no study in social science has focused on them. Williams closes this knowledge gap through ethnographic fieldwork! providing an in-depth analysis of the daily life of superintendents in the lower Harlem area in New York City. Zusammenfassung Superintendents play a large role in the formation of relationships and networks within their neighborhood; and yet! no study in social science has focused on them. Williams closes this knowledge gap through ethnographic fieldwork! providing an in-depth analysis of the daily life of superintendents in the lower Harlem area in New York City. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Making A Living 3. A Day In The Life: Sharif and Allan 4. Doing What Supers Do: Daily Duties 5. The Super and Informal Encounters 6. The Super and the Community 7. The Super and the Building 8. Race, Class and Poverty 9. Working in the Field

List of contents

1. Introduction
2. Making A Living
3. A Day In The Life: Sharif and Allan
4. Doing What Supers Do: Daily Duties
5. The Super and Informal Encounters
6. The Super and the Community
7. The Super and the Building
8. Race, Class and Poverty
9. Working in the Field

Product details

• Authors: Terry Williams
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.02.2016
• EAN: 9781349562411
• ISBN: 978-1-349-56241-1
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Perspektiven der Mathematikdidaktik; Springer Palgrave Macmillan; Perspektiven der Mathematikdidaktik
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Urban and regional sociology; Migration, B, Ethnic Studies, Social Inequality, Family, Social groups, Social Sciences, Social & ethical issues, Social & cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Migration, immigration & emigration, Sociology: family & relationships, Ethnicity, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Urban Sociology, Social Structure, Sociology: family and relationships, Emigration and immigration, Ethnicity Studies, Sociology, Urban, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban communities, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Human Migration