An exceptional ethnography marked by clarity and candor, Sidewalk takes us into the socio-cultural environment of those who, though often seen as threatening or unseemly, work day after day on “the blocks” of one of New York’s most diverse neighborhoods. Sociologist Duneier, author of Slim’s Table, offers an accessible and compelling group portrait of several poor black men who...
An exceptional ethnography marked by clarity and candor, Sidewalk takes us into the socio-cultural environment of those who, though often seen as threatening or unseemly, work day after day on “the blocks” of one of New York’s most diverse neighborhoods. Sociologist Duneier, author of Slim’s Table, offers an accessible and compelling group portrait of several poor black men who make their livelihoods on the sidewalks of Greenwich Village selling secondhand goods, panhandling, and scavenging books and magazines.
Duneier spent five years with these individuals, and in Sidewalk he argues that, contrary to the opinion of various city officials, they actually contribute significantly to the order and well-being of the Village. An important study of the heart and mind of the street, Sidewalk also features an insightful afterword by longtime book vendor Hakim Hasan. This fascinating study reveals today’s urban life in all its complexity: its vitality, its conflicts about class and race, and its surprising opportunities for empathy among strangers.
作者简介
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Mitchell Duneier is an American sociologist currently Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and regular Visiting Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Duneier earned his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1992. His first book, "Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity" won the 1994 American S...
Mitchell Duneier is an American sociologist currently Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and regular Visiting Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Duneier earned his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1992. His first book, "Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity" won the 1994 American Sociological Association's award for Distinguished Scholarly Publication. He is also the author of "Sidewalk" (1999), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the C. Wright Mills Award.
Professor Duneier taught at the University of California-Santa Barbara, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the City University of New York (where he regularly teaches in a visiting capacity) before joining the Princeton faculty. He served on the original advisory board for National Public Radio's "This American Life.
Any society with high levels of economic inequality, racism, illiteracy, and drug dependency, and with inadequate transitions from mental hospitals and prisons to work and home, will have vast numbers of people who cannot conform to the requirments of its formal institutions. Given this, the correct response is not for the society to attempt to rid public space of the outcasts it has had a hand in producing. It is vital to the well-being of cities with extreme poverty that there be opportunities for those on the edge to engage in self-directed entrepreneurial activity.
There will always be people who, faced with dispiriting social conditions give up. The people we see working on Sexth Avenue are perservering. They are trying not to give up hope. We should honor that in them.
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被作者的真诚感动，并让我再三反思自己的偏见。当我看到magazine vendors强调风餐露宿是自我决定的选择时，我的第一反应是人们总会有自我正当化、避免认知失调的倾向。但当我这样想的时候，不是已经先入为主地以我的价值判断僭越于他们之上，否定了他们的真正的个人意志吗？为什么magazine vendors的choosing to be homeless一定要被我蒙上自欺的色彩呢？我必须提醒自己切...被作者的真诚感动，并让我再三反思自己的偏见。当我看到magazine vendors强调风餐露宿是自我决定的选择时，我的第一反应是人们总会有自我正当化、避免认知失调的倾向。但当我这样想的时候，不是已经先入为主地以我的价值判断僭越于他们之上，否定了他们的真正的个人意志吗？为什么magazine vendors的choosing to be homeless一定要被我蒙上自欺的色彩呢？我必须提醒自己切勿如此傲慢，提醒自己代入社会学家的仅理解、不评判的视角。你抛弃对order的狭隘理解，才能辨析丰富多样的现实内含的秩序；你克制对indecency的先入为主的排斥，才能看到人们是如何充满创造力地在限缩的行动空间里构建有尊严有奔头的生活。(展开)
Re-read the Chinese translation. Nice journalistic depiction. He really got to know the people on the sidewalk. He made it there. And he really found those who made there home.
从宽泛的城市研究来看，《人行道王国》不能说是一本夺目的作品，相反，它平实、规范、因袭了强大而成熟的研究传统。在它 1999 年首次出版时，距离《街角社会》（Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum，William. F. Whyte）的诞生已有半个多世纪，而...
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8 有用 yesshen 2015-04-12 01:13:01
作者用五年时间在纽约第六大道和街头小贩打交道。他发现这些人事实上给社区带来了正面作用，有利于社区融合。此外，他们的选择常常是出于一种对本群体的内部关系的依赖——在这他们能得到主流社会中无法给予的温暖。这是一本民族志，但它做到了回归社会本身。
0 有用 RDX 2009-05-09 10:41:29
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0 有用 Echo 2012-04-26 12:22:32
GEOG3371 9/22 The book Vendors 22pgs How 6th avenue became a substaining habit 38pgs
8 有用 gardenhead 2016-03-15 22:32:35
-"does it say 'Fuck' in the book?" -"Yes." -"I like it."
1 有用 鸿蒙太空 2014-08-17 18:01:22
2013在伦敦第一次读，第一次了解到芝加哥学派和民族志，觉得芝加哥是那么遥远的一个地方。彼时觉得社会学就跟写小说一样，动人就好。2018年在学校再读，似乎一切都是那么亲切熟悉。原来学术真的能做到人文关怀啊......
0 有用 不爱吃零食 2023-08-15 10:14:55 浙江
非常好的一本书，作者本身包容善良的立场帮助他描绘了这些在人行道摆摊的小商小贩（往往是黑人）如何在经营自己非正式的经济的同时承担了social cohesion/solidarity/security的功能，他们是街道的守护神。除了自下而上的视角外作者还分析了禁止摆摊/panhandling的法律如何影响了这些摊贩的生活，同时他还指出我们对于种族的误解和粗暴归因实际上抹杀了他们对街道社区起到的正面影... 非常好的一本书，作者本身包容善良的立场帮助他描绘了这些在人行道摆摊的小商小贩（往往是黑人）如何在经营自己非正式的经济的同时承担了social cohesion/solidarity/security的功能，他们是街道的守护神。除了自下而上的视角外作者还分析了禁止摆摊/panhandling的法律如何影响了这些摊贩的生活，同时他还指出我们对于种族的误解和粗暴归因实际上抹杀了他们对街道社区起到的正面影响，所谓的decency只是我们的建构。从另一个方面来看，这些底层的/贫穷的人们努力寻找一种能让自己体面活下去的方式又有什么错呢，法律和社会将他们排除在公共空间之外这个行为才是最不decent的。 (展开)
0 有用 繁 2023-06-21 15:09:06 中国香港
一些看似著眼點很小實際意義非凡的科研。最後的結論真的讓人感動，每一份為體面生活所付出的努力啊。
0 有用 momo 2023-06-04 17:41:07 北京
被作者的真诚感动，并让我再三反思自己的偏见。当我看到magazine vendors强调风餐露宿是自我决定的选择时，我的第一反应是人们总会有自我正当化、避免认知失调的倾向。但当我这样想的时候，不是已经先入为主地以我的价值判断僭越于他们之上，否定了他们的真正的个人意志吗？为什么magazine vendors的choosing to be homeless一定要被我蒙上自欺的色彩呢？我必须提醒自己切... 被作者的真诚感动，并让我再三反思自己的偏见。当我看到magazine vendors强调风餐露宿是自我决定的选择时，我的第一反应是人们总会有自我正当化、避免认知失调的倾向。但当我这样想的时候，不是已经先入为主地以我的价值判断僭越于他们之上，否定了他们的真正的个人意志吗？为什么magazine vendors的choosing to be homeless一定要被我蒙上自欺的色彩呢？我必须提醒自己切勿如此傲慢，提醒自己代入社会学家的仅理解、不评判的视角。你抛弃对order的狭隘理解，才能辨析丰富多样的现实内含的秩序；你克制对indecency的先入为主的排斥，才能看到人们是如何充满创造力地在限缩的行动空间里构建有尊严有奔头的生活。 (展开)
0 有用 灰林鸮 2023-04-26 14:33:27 新加坡
写得好，理论反思和经验结合得好，而且是诚实、善良的社会学。
0 有用 y 2023-03-03 18:23:32 浙江
Re-read the Chinese translation. Nice journalistic depiction. He really got to know the people on the sidewalk. He made it there. And he really found those who made there home.