New Jersey Dreaming - 9780822335986
Un libro in lingua di Ortner Sherry B. edito da Duke Univ Pr, 2005
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Ortner tracked down nearly all 304 of her classmates. She interviewed about 100 in person and spoke with most of the rest by phone, recording her classmates' vivid memories of time, place, and identity. Ortner shows how social class affected people's lives in many hidden and unexamined ways. She also demonstrates that the Class of '58's extreme upward mobility must be understood in relation to the major identity movements of the twentieth century—the campaign against anti-Semitism, the Civil Rights movement, and feminism.
A multisited study combining field research with an interdisciplinary analytical framework, New Jersey Dreaming is a masterly integration of developments at the vanguard of contemporary anthropology. Engaging excerpts from Ortner's field notes are interspersed throughout the book. Whether recording the difficulties and pleasures of studying one's own peer group, the cultures of driving in different parts of the country, or the contrasting experiences of appointment-making in Los Angeles and New York, they provide a rare glimpse into the actual doing of ethnographic research.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: New Jersey Dreaming
- Sottotitolo: Capital, Culture, And the Class of '58
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Ortner Sherry B.
- Editore: Duke Univ Pr
- Collana: Duke Univ Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 15 Settembre '05
- Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : Social mobility United States Case studies High school graduates New Jersey Newark Social conditions High school graduates New Jersey Newark Economic conditions
- Pagine: 340
- Peso gr: 498
- Dimensioni mm: 234 x 158 x 25
- ISBN-10: 0822335980
- EAN-13: 9780822335986