Tyneside neighbourhoods deprivation, social life and social behaviour in one British city

"Nettle's book presents the results of five years of comparative ethnographic fieldwork in two different neighbourhoods of the same British city, Newcastle upon Tyne. The neighbourhoods are only a few kilometres apart, yet whilst one is relatively affluent, the other is amongst the most ec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Open Book Publishers, publisher (publisher)
Otros Autores: Nettle, Daniel, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, England : Open Book Publishers 2015.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009432634806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction ; Prelude ; About this book ; The city context: Newcastle upon Tyne ; Motivations for the Tyneside Neighbourhoods Project ; Competing narratives: Kropotkin versus the Mountain People
  • 2. Study sites and methods ; The study neighbourhoods ; Development of methods: General considerations ; Description of datasets
  • 3. Mutual aid ; Introduction ; Round one: Social interactions in the streets ; Round two: Self-reported social capital ; Round three: Dictator Games ; Close to the edge ; The return of the lost letter, and other encounters
  • 4. Crime and punishment ; Introduction The spreading of disorder and the maintenance of antisocial behaviour ; Littering and crime reports ; The Theft Game ; An experiment with information ; The strange case of the norms effect that didn't happen
  • 5. From cradle to grave ; Introduction ; Children's use of the streets ; Social trust through childhood ; Social trust through adulthood ; No country for old men
  • 6. Being there ; Introduction ; Perceptual experience and context sensitivity ; An experiment with minibuses ; The social diet
  • 7. Conclusions and reflections ; Introduction ; Summary and implications of findings ; The economic grit and the cultural pearl ; Structural change versus nudges ; The ethics of representation and the value of ethnography
  • References
  • Index.