Description
Book SynopsisThis collection represents Michael Rosen's encounter with an 'ethnography of the center'-the study of cultural orders in the heart of the metropolis. Considers occupational worlds from finance and advertising to the subworld of drug dealing.
Trade ReviewRosen's writing style anticipated and illustrates recent attention to writing practices
It is a collection in which both text and subtext speak to the possibilities and difficulties of ethnographic practice and its inextricably tied promise and pitfalls. And together
Table of ContentsOrganizational Ethnography; Introduction; Chapter 1 Coming to Terms with the Field: Understanding and Doing Organizational Ethnography; Chapter 2 Breakfast at Spiro’s: Dramaturgy and Dominance; Chapter 3 You asked for it: Christmas at the Bosses’ Expense; Ecological Ethnography; intro1 Introduction; Chapter 4 Crashing in ’87: Power and Symbolism in the Dow; Chapter 5 Staying on the String: The Yo and the Market in Eighty-Nine; Chapter 6 Building Buildings and Living Lives: A Critique of Bureaucracy, Ideology and Concrete Artifacts, Wanda J. Orlikowski, Kim S. Schmahmann; Contingent Knowledge; intro2 Introduction; Chapter 7 There to Here and no Way Back: The Late Life of a Cocaine Dealer, Thomas P. Mullen; Chapter 8 Scholars, Travelers, Thieves: On Concept, Method, and Cunning in Organizational Ethnography;
