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PREFACE
1. Introduction
Michael Burawoy
2. Reconstructing Social Theories
Michael Burawoy
PART 1 · NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Introduction to Part 1
3. Silence, Death, and the Invisible Enemy: AIDS Activism and Social
Movement "Newness"
Joshua Gamson
4. "Fight the Power": Two Groups Mobilize for Peace
Josepha Schiffman
PART 2 · REORGANIZING THE WORKPLACE
Introduction to Part 2
5. Dividing Up the Struggle: The Consequences of "Split" Welfare Work for
Union Activism
Alice Burton
6. Managing Without Managers: Crisis and Resolution in a Collective Bakery
Ann Arnett Ferguson I
PART 3 · NEW IMMIGRANTS
Introduction to Part 3
7. A Maid by Any Other Name: The Transformation of "Dirty Work" by
Central American Immigrants
Leslie Salzinger
8. "Unlikely Heroes": The Evolution of Female Leadership in a Cambodian
Ethnic Enclave
Shiori Ui
PART 4 · FROM CLASSROOM TO COMMUNITY
Introduction to Part 4
9. Mr. Henry Makes a Deal: Negotiated Teaching in a Junior High School
Leslie Hurst
10. Coming Together: An Interactive Model of Schooling
Nadine Gartrell
PART 5 · RESEARCHING THE RESEARCHERS
Introduction to Part 5
11. The Politics of Prevention: Ethnographers Combat AIDS Among Drug
Users
Kathryn]. Fox
12. Convincing Sociologists: Values and Interests in the Sociology of
Knowledge
Charles Kurzman
CONCLUSION
13. The Extended Case Method
Michael Burawoy
APPENDIX
14. Teaching Participant Observation
Michael Burawoy
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
About the author
All of the authors are affiliated with the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Summary
In this powerful volume, ten original ethnographies explore two important issues: the ways in which people confront the threats and disruptions of contemporary life, and the ways in which researchers can most effectively study the modern metropolis. With its twofold agenda, the volume emerges as a multi-layered dialogue between researcher and researched, participant and observer, educator and educated.
These essays, produced in a refreshing collaborative effort by a senior scholar and ten graduate students, examine many facets of American urban life, among them new social movements that mobilize and work on behalf of people with AIDS and that fight against nuclear war; the decisive roles South East Asian women play in building new immigrant communities; and school programs for African-American children.
Ethnography Unbound also explores the value of participant observation and the extended case method in social research, underlining how these methodological approaches deepen and enrich scholarship in the social sciences.
The book poses theoretical and methodological questions in an open and lucid manner, prodding a rethinking of ethnographic research. Scholars and students alike will find it an essential text for the study of methodology and contemporary American life.
