Skip to main content
Erschienen in: Society 4/2016

06.06.2016 | Review Essay Symposium: Alice Goffman’s On the Run

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: On the Run and Its Critics

Alice Goffman, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. $25.00. 288 pp. ISBN: 978–0,226,136,714

verfasst von: Robert Zussman

Erschienen in: Society | Ausgabe 4/2016

Einloggen

Aktivieren Sie unsere intelligente Suche, um passende Fachinhalte oder Patente zu finden.

search-config
loading …

Abstract

Alice Goffman’s On the Run has become one of the most controversial books published in sociology in many years. Her moving account of several young Black men and their legal entanglements has raised questions about how whites represent Blacks in their research, what obligations researchers have to avoid illegal activities of their own, and, most importantly, about the character of truth in ethnographic research.

Sie haben noch keine Lizenz? Dann Informieren Sie sich jetzt über unsere Produkte:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 102.000 Bücher
  • über 537 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Automobil + Motoren
  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
  • Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
  • Finance + Banking
  • Management + Führung
  • Marketing + Vertrieb
  • Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe
  • Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 67.000 Bücher
  • über 340 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Finance + Banking
  • Management + Führung
  • Marketing + Vertrieb
  • Versicherung + Risiko




Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

Fußnoten
1
Laud Humphreys, Tea Room Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places. Chicago: Aldine, 1970.
 
2
William Foote Whyte, Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum. Second edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955.
 
3
W. A. Marianne Boelen, “Street Corner Society: Cornerville Revisted,” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 21 (1992): 11–51.
 
4
Ariel Kaminer, “Columbia’s Gang Scholar Lives on the Edge,” New York Times, Nov. 30, 2012.
 
5
Alex Kotlowitz, “Deep Cover: Alice Goffman’s On the Run,” New york Times, June 29, 2014; Malcolm Gladwell, “The Crooked Ladder: The Criminal’s Guide to Upward Mobility,” The New Yorker, August 11, 2014; Christopher Jencks, The New York Review of Books, “On America’s Frontline,” October 9, 2014.
 
6
Victor Rios, “On the Run,” American Journal of Sociology 121 (2015): 308.
 
7
Dwayne Betts, “The Stoop Is not the Jungle,” Slate, July 10, 2014 http://​www.​slate.​com/​articles/​news_​and_​politics/​jurisprudence/​2014/​07/​
 
8
ibid.
 
9
Whyte, op cit
 
10
Steven Lubet, “Ethics on the Run,” The New Rambler, 2015. http://​newramblerreview​.​com/​book-reviews/​law/​ethics-on-the-run
 
11
Patricia Adler, Wheeling and Dealing: An Ethnography of an Upper-level Drug Dealing and Smuggling Community. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.
 
12
Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets. New York: Penguin Press, 2008.
 
14
Lubet, op cit
 
15
ibid.
 
17
Paul Campos, “Alice Goffman’s Implausible Ethnography,” The Chronicle Review, Aug. 21, 2015
 
18
Charles Bosk, Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Mistakes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.
 
19
Gideon Lewis Kraus, “The Trials of Alice Goffman,” The New York Times, January 13, 2016.
 
20
ibid.
 
21
Goffman, “Reply.”
 
Metadaten
Titel
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: On the Run and Its Critics
Alice Goffman, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. $25.00. 288 pp. ISBN: 978–0,226,136,714
verfasst von
Robert Zussman
Publikationsdatum
06.06.2016
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Society / Ausgabe 4/2016
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Elektronische ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-016-0039-z

Weitere Artikel der Ausgabe 4/2016

Society 4/2016 Zur Ausgabe

Social Science and Public Policy

Combat Veterans on Civilian Gun Rights

Society’s Books of Note

Society ’ s Books of Note