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Tangled Goods
A novel investigation of pro bono marketing and the relationship between goods, exploring the complex moral dimensions of philanthropic advertising. The advertising industry may seem like one of the most craven manifestations of capitalism, turning consumption into a virtue. In Tangled Goods, authors Iddo Tavory, Sonia Prelat, and Shelly Ronen consider an important dimension of the advertising industry that appears to depart from the industry’s consumerist foundations: pro bono ad campaigns. Why is an industry known for biting cynicism and cutthroat competition also an industry in which people dedicate time and effort to “doing good”? Interviewing over seventy advertising professionals...
Data Analysis in Qualitative Research
From two experts in the field comes an accessible, how-to guide that will help researchers think more productively about the relation between theory and data at every stage of their work. In Data Analysis in Qualitative Research, Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans provide a how-to guide filled with tricks of the trade for researchers who hope to take excellent qualitative data and transform it into powerful scholarship. In their previous book, Abductive Analysis: Theorizing Qualitative Research, Timmermans and Tavory offered a toolkit for innovative theorizing in the social sciences. In this companion, they go one step further to show how to uncover the surprising revelations that lie waiting...
Yes to the City
A fascinating account of the growing "Yes in My Backyard" urban movement The exorbitant costs of urban housing and the widening gap in income inequality are fueling a combative new movement in cities around the world. A growing number of influential activists aren’t waiting for new public housing to be built. Instead, they’re calling for more construction and denser cities in order to increase affordability. Yes to the City offers an in-depth look at the “Yes in My Backyard” (YIMBY) movement. From its origins in San Francisco to its current cadre of activists pushing for new apartment towers in places like Boulder, Austin, and London, Max Holleran explores how urban density, once mal...
Words and Distinctions for the Common Good
How social scientists' disagreements about their key words and distinctions have been misconceived, and what to do about it Social scientists do research on a variety of topics—gender, capitalism, populism, and race and ethnicity, among others. They make descriptive and explanatory claims about empathy, intelligence, neoliberalism, and power. They advise policymakers on diversity, digitalization, work, and religion. And yet, as Gabriel Abend points out in this provocative book, they can’t agree on what these things are and how to identify them. How to tell if something is a religion or a cult or a sect? What is empathy? What makes this society a capitalist one? Disputes of this sort aris...
Mayan Journeys
"Yucatán, an impoverished state in southern Mexico, has recently emerged as a significant source of US-bound migrants. Why did this state's indigenous population wait so long to enter the migration stream, and how do their experiences differ from those of earlier more traditional migrants? Mayan Journeys explores how internal migration to southern Mexico's tourist resorts serves as a springboard for international migration and how the new migrants navigate enhanced obstacles at the US-Mexico border and enter the US labor force. Drawing on an extensive 2006 survey of migrants and potential migrants in Tunkás, Yucatán, and its satellite communities in Southern California, the authors provide new evidence of the failure of US border enforcement to deter undocumented migration from Mexico"--Publisher's description.
The Science and Art of Interviewing
"Qualitative interviewing is one of the most widely used methods in social research, but it is arguably the least well understood. To address that gap, this book offers a theoretically rigorous, empirically rich, and user-friendly set of strategies for conceiving and conducting interview-based research. Much more than a "how to" manual, the book shows why depth interviewing is an indispensable method for discovering and explaining the social world-shedding light on the hidden patterns and dynamics that take place within institutions, social contexts, relationships, and individual experiences. It offers a step-by-step guide through every stage in the research process, from initially formulati...
Four Generations of Norteños
Table of contents: The Dynamics of Migration: Who Migrates? Who Stays? Who Settles Abroad? - J. Jarvis, A. Ponce, S. Rodriguez, and L. Cajigal Garcia. Is US Border Enforcement Working? - J. Sisco and J. Hicken. Coyotaje: The Structure and Functioning of the People-Smuggling Industry - J. Fuentes and O. Garcia. Jumping the Legal Hurdles: Getting Visas, Green Cards, and U.S. Citizenship - L. Vazquez, M. Luna Gomez, E. Law, and K. Valentine. Development in a Remittance Economy: What Options Are Viable? - P. Nichols, A. Macias Macias, E. Diaz, and A. Frenkel. Outsiders in Their Own Hometown? The Process of Dissimilation - J. Serrano, K. Dodge, G. Hernandez, and E. Valencia. Families in Transition: Migration and Gender Dynamics in Sending and Receiving Communities - L. Muse-Orlinoff, J. Cordova, L. Angulo, M. Kanungo, and R. Rodriguez. The Migrant Health Paradox Revisited - E. Oristian, P. Sweeney, V. Puentes, J. Jimenez, and M. Ruiz.
Migration from the Mexican Mixteca
"This volume provides a vivid portrait of a transnational migrant community anchored in both the remote Mixteca region of Oaxaca and the San Diego metropolitan area. Drawing on surveys and interviews with migrants and potential migrants conducted by a binational research team in 2007-2008, the contributors show how the Oaxaca-based and the California-based natives of the town of San Miguel Tlacotepec have built parallel communities separated by an increasingly fortified international border. Their findings shed important new light on a range of vital issues in US immigration policy, including the efficacy and impact of border enforcement, how undocumented status affects health and education outcomes, and how modern telecommunications are shaping transborder migrant networks." -- Book cover.
Argentina y sus clases medias
Para un país que ha presumido desde hace mucho ser "de clase media"; donde ciertas expresiones públicas son caracterizadas como "clase media"; y, aún más, la "clase media" es objeto de invocación frecuente, su estudio sistemático a través de diferentes disciplinas se ha tornado crucial si se espera trascender tanto el sentido común como los discursos más evaluativos y normativos. Esta es la pretensión principal de este libro: ofrecer un conjunto de estudios empíricos acerca de la clase media en la Argentina. Se despliega así, a través de sus nueve capítulos, una línea amplia y heterogénea de investigación que trata de entender cómo actúan y piensan determinados sectores en diferentes zonas del país, a través de los modos en que interactúan, se definen y diferencian de otros, apelando a una amplia batería de prácticas, lenguajes y narrativas.
Migración desde la Mixteca
Este libro es el cuarto de una serie de volúmenes que reportan los resultados del Programa de Capacitación e Investigación de Campo sobre Migración Mexicana del centro de estudios comparativos de inmigración de la Universidad de California, San Diego. El presente volumen es resultado de una investigación de campo en la comunidad de San Miguel Tlacotepec, en la mixteca oaxaqueña, y su comunidad satélite: Vista, al norte del condado de San Diego, California. Constituye un estudio bifocal que proporciona un reflejo de las características, tendencias y ramificaciones de la migración en Oaxaca y nuestro país. Asimismo, aporta una descripción valiosa del proceso migratorio en la actualidad, así como sus consecuencias en la comunidad receptora.
