Recent ethnography of minority and working-class schooling has shown how wider structural factors... more Recent ethnography of minority and working-class schooling has shown how wider structural factors like class stratification, poverty, and racism influence observable patterns of failure and under achievement in the classroom. In contrast, ethnography in middle-class schools and classrooms has not seriously probed similar structural bases of middle-class children's success, instead attributing this success to a presumed equivalence between the “middle-class culture” of the children's homes and the culture of the school and its staff. This study traces the history and effects of middle-class involvement in the public elementary school of a gentrifying inner-city neighborhood in New York City. Segregated into their special classrooms with distinctive curriculum and organization, the school's middle-class children were more successful than their poor and working-class peers. Their success was not the result, in Bourdieu's terms, of the “cultural capital” afforded by thei...
Plotnicov, Leonard, ed. American Culture: Essays on the Familiar and Unfamiliar. Pittsburgh: Univ... more Plotnicov, Leonard, ed. American Culture: Essays on the Familiar and Unfamiliar. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990. xii + 301 pp. including chapter bibliographies. $24.95 cloth, $12.95 paper.Moffat, Michael. Coming of Age in New Jersey: College and American Culture. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1989. xvii + 355 pp. including references and index. $35.00 cloth, $12.95 paper.
... traditional participant-observation in the investigation of informal face-to-face relations, ... more ... traditional participant-observation in the investigation of informal face-to-face relations, but the available informal social relations are those ... total Chestnut Heights popula-tion, have traditionally found employment as stevedores and longshoremen in the nearby harbor waterfront ...
reviewer should contact Professor Rider. Individuals who would like to propose a topic for an ess... more reviewer should contact Professor Rider. Individuals who would like to propose a topic for an essay review especially are encouraged to contact him. Those of you who recently have authored either a book or an article in an edited collection should make certain that your publisher has sent review copies to AEQ. All matters relating to book reviews should be addressed to Professor C.D. Rider, Book Review Editor, AEQ, College of Human and Rural Development, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99701. -H.F.W.
LATE‐20TH‐CENTURY GLOBAL ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING, and emerging conditions of postindustrialism and... more LATE‐20TH‐CENTURY GLOBAL ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING, and emerging conditions of postindustrialism and postmodernity in the advanced capitalist world, present new challenges and opportunities for urban anthropology. Recently evolving urban forms and arrangements offer arenas for gaining new perspective on many enduring issues in the anthropology of complex societies, particularly those centering on the relations between cities and their broader metropolitan, regional, national, and global contexts. More holistic approaches with greater attention to historical and structural rather than microethnographic processes can yield the middle‐range analyses necessary to explain contemporary developments, [postindustrial cities, urban analysis, urban development, urban anthropology]
Middle‐Class Professionals Who Gentrified a New York City neighborhood during the 1960s and 1970s... more Middle‐Class Professionals Who Gentrified a New York City neighborhood during the 1960s and 1970s possessed a coherent vision of community improvement that guided their civic activity. Drawing on many long‐standing Western ant urban notions, their vision centered on themes of renewal, cleansing, and purification of a fundamentally disordered and polluted city, and guided their actions in four main areas: (1) opposition to commercial and industrial development; (2) historic preservation and restoration; (3) beautification greening, and celebration of the "natural"; and (4) political reform. Current urban economic trends in North America, particularly the shift from manufacturing to service‐based economies, support the appearance of this ideology and the associated gentrification practices, [gentrification, housing, New York]
Bureaucracy and World View: Studies in the Logic of Official Interpretation. Don Handelman and El... more Bureaucracy and World View: Studies in the Logic of Official Interpretation. Don Handelman and Elliot Leyton. 1978. Institute of Social and Economic Research, Social and Economic Studies, No. 22. St. Johns, Nfld.: Memorial University of Newfoundland. viii. 143 pp.
... they serve as an alter-native focus of loyalty, precluding children's acceptance of the ... more ... they serve as an alter-native focus of loyalty, precluding children's acceptance of the teacher as an authority figure and role model (/bid.); that pupils' peer group behavior gives expression to an original childhood antipathy to adult-imposed rules and restrictions (Waller 1932 ...
SURPRISINGLY SIMILAR DEVELOPMENTS in planning, land use, and cultural life are evident in "r... more SURPRISINGLY SIMILAR DEVELOPMENTS in planning, land use, and cultural life are evident in "revitalized" waterfronts in many port cities throughout North America. This article presents a cultural theory of waterfront redevelopment, viewing the process as a characteristic response of similarly situated postindustrial port cities to international economic restructuring, technological obsolescence of port facilities, and corporatization. Major themes in revitalized waterfronts—environmentalism, history and heritage, and tourism and festival —serve to connect newcomer elite groups to a changing urban environment, by reconceptualizing the relationship of the city toward nature, the past, and work, [port cities, urban renewal, waterfronts, postindustrialism]
Recent ethnography of minority and working-class schooling has shown how wider structural factors... more Recent ethnography of minority and working-class schooling has shown how wider structural factors like class stratification, poverty, and racism influence observable patterns of failure and under achievement in the classroom. In contrast, ethnography in middle-class schools and classrooms has not seriously probed similar structural bases of middle-class children's success, instead attributing this success to a presumed equivalence between the “middle-class culture” of the children's homes and the culture of the school and its staff. This study traces the history and effects of middle-class involvement in the public elementary school of a gentrifying inner-city neighborhood in New York City. Segregated into their special classrooms with distinctive curriculum and organization, the school's middle-class children were more successful than their poor and working-class peers. Their success was not the result, in Bourdieu's terms, of the “cultural capital” afforded by thei...
Plotnicov, Leonard, ed. American Culture: Essays on the Familiar and Unfamiliar. Pittsburgh: Univ... more Plotnicov, Leonard, ed. American Culture: Essays on the Familiar and Unfamiliar. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990. xii + 301 pp. including chapter bibliographies. $24.95 cloth, $12.95 paper.Moffat, Michael. Coming of Age in New Jersey: College and American Culture. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1989. xvii + 355 pp. including references and index. $35.00 cloth, $12.95 paper.
... traditional participant-observation in the investigation of informal face-to-face relations, ... more ... traditional participant-observation in the investigation of informal face-to-face relations, but the available informal social relations are those ... total Chestnut Heights popula-tion, have traditionally found employment as stevedores and longshoremen in the nearby harbor waterfront ...
reviewer should contact Professor Rider. Individuals who would like to propose a topic for an ess... more reviewer should contact Professor Rider. Individuals who would like to propose a topic for an essay review especially are encouraged to contact him. Those of you who recently have authored either a book or an article in an edited collection should make certain that your publisher has sent review copies to AEQ. All matters relating to book reviews should be addressed to Professor C.D. Rider, Book Review Editor, AEQ, College of Human and Rural Development, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99701. -H.F.W.
LATE‐20TH‐CENTURY GLOBAL ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING, and emerging conditions of postindustrialism and... more LATE‐20TH‐CENTURY GLOBAL ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING, and emerging conditions of postindustrialism and postmodernity in the advanced capitalist world, present new challenges and opportunities for urban anthropology. Recently evolving urban forms and arrangements offer arenas for gaining new perspective on many enduring issues in the anthropology of complex societies, particularly those centering on the relations between cities and their broader metropolitan, regional, national, and global contexts. More holistic approaches with greater attention to historical and structural rather than microethnographic processes can yield the middle‐range analyses necessary to explain contemporary developments, [postindustrial cities, urban analysis, urban development, urban anthropology]
Middle‐Class Professionals Who Gentrified a New York City neighborhood during the 1960s and 1970s... more Middle‐Class Professionals Who Gentrified a New York City neighborhood during the 1960s and 1970s possessed a coherent vision of community improvement that guided their civic activity. Drawing on many long‐standing Western ant urban notions, their vision centered on themes of renewal, cleansing, and purification of a fundamentally disordered and polluted city, and guided their actions in four main areas: (1) opposition to commercial and industrial development; (2) historic preservation and restoration; (3) beautification greening, and celebration of the "natural"; and (4) political reform. Current urban economic trends in North America, particularly the shift from manufacturing to service‐based economies, support the appearance of this ideology and the associated gentrification practices, [gentrification, housing, New York]
Bureaucracy and World View: Studies in the Logic of Official Interpretation. Don Handelman and El... more Bureaucracy and World View: Studies in the Logic of Official Interpretation. Don Handelman and Elliot Leyton. 1978. Institute of Social and Economic Research, Social and Economic Studies, No. 22. St. Johns, Nfld.: Memorial University of Newfoundland. viii. 143 pp.
... they serve as an alter-native focus of loyalty, precluding children's acceptance of the ... more ... they serve as an alter-native focus of loyalty, precluding children's acceptance of the teacher as an authority figure and role model (/bid.); that pupils' peer group behavior gives expression to an original childhood antipathy to adult-imposed rules and restrictions (Waller 1932 ...
SURPRISINGLY SIMILAR DEVELOPMENTS in planning, land use, and cultural life are evident in "r... more SURPRISINGLY SIMILAR DEVELOPMENTS in planning, land use, and cultural life are evident in "revitalized" waterfronts in many port cities throughout North America. This article presents a cultural theory of waterfront redevelopment, viewing the process as a characteristic response of similarly situated postindustrial port cities to international economic restructuring, technological obsolescence of port facilities, and corporatization. Major themes in revitalized waterfronts—environmentalism, history and heritage, and tourism and festival —serve to connect newcomer elite groups to a changing urban environment, by reconceptualizing the relationship of the city toward nature, the past, and work, [port cities, urban renewal, waterfronts, postindustrialism]
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