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Analytic Culture in the US Intelligence Community: An Ethnographic Study
by
Rob Johnston
Call Number: PREX 3.17:AN 1 (1st floor Gov. Publications)
Publication Date: 2005
Also available online
Between Women: Domestics and Their Employers
by
Judith Rollins
Call Number: HD6072.2.U5 R67 1985 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1985-09-01
Charismatic Capitalism: Direct Selling Organizations in America
by
Nicole Woolsey Biggart
Call Number: HF5438.25 B52 1989 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1989
The Cocktail Waitress
by
James P. Spradley; Brenda J. Mann
Call Number: HD6073 C6352 U561x 1975 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1975-01-01
Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace.
by
Dorinne Kondo
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2009
Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family
by
Matthews Masayuki Hamabata
Call Number: HQ682 H25 1990 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1990
The Dynamics of Bureaucracy: A Study of Interpersonal Relations in Two Government Agencies
by
Peter Blau
Call Number: JF1501. B55 1963 c.3 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1963
The Emergent Manager
by
Tony J. Watson; Pauline Harris
Call Number: HD30.17 W32x 1999 (3rd floor)
ISBN: 0761958428
Publication Date: 1999-12-13
Also available online.
Ethnography in Organizations
by
Helen B. Schwartzman
Call Number: HD58.7 S349 1993 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1993
Finding Time: How Corporations, Individuals, and Families Can Benefit from New Work Practicies
by
Leslie A. Perlow
Call Number: HD5106 .P42 1997 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1997-10-30
The Hoghead: An Industrial Ethnology of the Locomotive Engineer
by
Frederick C. Gamst
Call Number: HD8039 R322 U53 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1980
The Hunters
by
Elman R. Service
Call Number: GN405 S4 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1966
Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs
by
Paul Willis
Call Number: HD6276 G7 W54 1981 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1981-12-22
The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling
by
Arlie Russell. Hochschild
Call Number: BF531 .H62 1983 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1983-01-01
Managing in the Corporate Interest: Control and Resistance in An American Bank
by
Vicki A. Smith
Call Number: HG1615 S64 1990 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1990-07-05
Also available online.
Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism
by
Michael Burawoy
Call Number: HD85 (3rd floor)
ISBN: 0226080374
Publication Date: 1982
Men and Women of the Corporation
by
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Call Number: HD58.7 .K36 c.3 (3rd floor)
ISBN: 0465044522
Publication Date: 1977-06-01
Men who Manage: Fusions of Feeling and Theory in Administration.
by
Melville Dalton
Call Number: HD31 D2 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1959
Migrant Agricultural Workers in America's Northeast
by
William H. Friedland [and] Dorothy Nelkin
Call Number: HD1527 .A125 F74 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1971
My Troubles Are Going to Have Trouble with Me: Everyday Trials and Triumphs of Women Workers
by
Dorothy Remy and Karen Brodkin Sacks (Editors)
Call Number: HD6095 M9 1984 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1984-09-01
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Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club
by
Allison, Anne
Call Number: GT3415 J3 A45 1994 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1994
Organizing Modernity: New Weberian Perspectives on Work, Organization, and Society
by
Larry Ray; Michael Reed
Call Number: HM131 O75 1994
Publication Date: 1994-10-27
Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy.
by
Alvin Ward Gouldner
Call Number: HD31 .G68 c.2 (4th floor - Special Collections)
Publication Date: 1954
The Right Stuff
by
Tom Wolfe
Call Number: TL789.8.U5 W64 1983 (4th floor)
Publication Date: 1983
Royal Blue: The Culture of Construction Workers
by
George Applebaum (Editor); Louis S. Applebaum (Editor)
Call Number: HD8039 B92 U54 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1981
A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America
by
Kathleen Stewart
Call Number: HN79 W4 S74 1996
Publication Date: 1996-03-07
Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience
by
Susan G. Davis
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 1997
Talking About Machines
by
Julian E. Orr
Call Number: HD9802.3.U64 X4765 1996 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1996-10-17
The Time Bind
by
Arlie Russell. Hochschild
Call Number: HQ536 .H633 1997 (3rd floor)
ISBN: 0805044701
Publication Date: 1997-05-15
Warehousing Violence
by
Mark E. Fleisher
Call Number: HV9474 L65 F54 1989 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1989
Education
Amish Children: Education in the Family, School, and Community
by
Louise S. Spindler (Editor); John A. Hostetler; Gertrude E. Huntington; George D. Spindler (Introduction by)
Call Number: LC586 A45 H67 1992 (4th floor)
Publication Date: 1992-01-01
Educational Opportunity in an Urban American High School
by
Patrick James McQuillan
Call Number: LC191.4 .M39 1998 (4th floor)
ISBN: 0791435008
Publication Date: 1997-11-25
Education and Identity in Rural France
by
Deborah Reed-Danahay; Meyer Fortes (Contribution by); Jack Goody (Contribution by); Edmund Leach (Contribution by); Stanley Tambiah (Contribution by)
Call Number: LC191.8.F8 R44 1996 (4th floor)
ISBN: 0521483123
Publication Date: 1995-12-07
Teaching and Learning in City Schools; a Comparative Study
by
Eleanor Burke Leacock
Call Number: LC5131 .L37 (4th floor)
Publication Date: 1969
Ethnic
Amish Children: Education in the Family, School, and Community
by
John Hostetler
Call Number: LC586 A45 H67 1992
Publication Date: 1992
Assimilation in American Life: The Role of Race, Religion, and National Origins Religion, and National Origins
by
Milton Gordon
Call Number: HN57.G6 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1964
Border Visions: Mexican Cultures of the Southwest United States
by
Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez
Call Number: F790.M5 V45 1996 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1996-11-01
Chicano Prisoners; The Key to San Quentin
by
R. Theodore Davidson
Call Number: HV9475 C3 S7317 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1974
Complex Ethnic Households in America
by
Laurel Schwede, Rae Lesser Blumberg, Anna Y. Chan
Call Number: E184.A1 C65 2005 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 2005
Family Connections: A History of Italian and Jewish Immigrant Lives in Providence, Rhode Island, 1900-1940
by
Judith E. Smith
Call Number: F89.P99 I87 1985 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1985
A Feeling of Belonging: Asian American Women's Public Culture, 1930-1960
by
Shirley Jennifer Lim
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2006
From the Kitchen to the Parlor: Language and Becoming in African American Women's Hair Care
by
Lanita Jacobs-Huey
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2006
Lifelines: Black Families in Chicago
by
Joyce Aschenbrenner
Call Number: F548.9.N3 A8 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1975
Number Our Days
by
Barbara Myerhoff
Call Number: F869 V36 M9 1978 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1978
On the Street Where I Lived
by
Melvin D. Williams
Call Number: F159 .P69 N49 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1981
Shadowed Lives: Undocumented immigrants in American Society
by
Leo R. Chavez
Call Number: JV6926.S26 C43 1992 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1992
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the collision of two cultures
by
Anne Fadiman
Call Number: RA418.5.T73 F33 1997 (4th floor)
Publication Date: 1997
Spout Spring; A Black Community
by
Peter Kunkel and Sara Sue Kennard
Call Number: E185.86 K8 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1971
The Traveller-Gypsies
by
Judith Okely
Call Number: DX211 .O34 1983 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1983
Also available online.
Watts and Woodstock; Identity and Culture in the United States and South Africa
by
James O'Toole
Call Number: F869 .L89 N36 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1973-01-01
Health and Medicine
Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
by
Erving Goffman
Call Number: RC439 .G58 2007 (4th floor)
Publication Date: 2007 (c.1961)
Boys in White: Student Culture in Medical School
by
Howard S. Becker
Call Number: R745 .B38 1976 (4th floor)
Publication Date: 1976
Daytop Village: A Therapeutic Community
by
Barry Sugarman
Call Number: HV5833 .N45 S9 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1974
Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS
by
Emily Martin
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 1994
Health Care's Forgotten Majority: Nurses and Their Frayed White Collars
by
Jacqueline Goodman-Draper
Call Number: RT86.5 G66 1995 (Health Sciences Library)
Publication Date: 1995
Men and Qomen in Medical School: How They Change and How They Compare
by
Jane Leserman
Call Number: R745 L53 (4th floor)
Publication Date: 1081
The Psychiatric Hospital As a Small Society
by
William A. Caudill
Call Number: RC439 C33 (4th floor)
Publication Date: 1958
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
by
Anne Fadiman
Call Number: RA418.5.T73 F33 1997 (4th floor)
Publication Date: 1997-09-30
Poverty
Ain't No Makin' It: Leveled Aspirations in a Low-Income Neighborhood
by
Jay MacLeod
Call Number: HV4045 .M33 1987 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1987
At Home on the Street: People, Poverty, and a Hidden Culture of Homelessness
by
Jason Adam Wasserman , Jeffrey Michael Clair
Call Number: HV4505 .W26 2010 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 2010
The Dead End Kids of St. Louis: Homeless Boys and the People Who Tried to Save Them
by
Bonnie Stepenoff
Call Number: HV4506.S25 S74 2010 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 2010
Falling from Grace: The Experience of Downward Mobility in the American Middle Class
by
Newman, Katherine
Call Number: HN90 S65 N48 1988 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1988
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
by
Jonathan Kozol
Call Number: HV741 .K674 2012 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 2012
Poverty in Rural America: A Case Study
by
Janet Fitchen
Call Number: HC110.P6 F55 1981 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1981
Silent Sisters: A Study of Homeless Women
by
Betty G. Russell
Call Number: HV4506 b35 R87 1991 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1991
Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women
by
Elliot Liebow
Call Number: HV4506 W2 L54 1995 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1995
Religion
The Life and Hard Times of a Korean Shaman: Of Tales and the Telling of Tales
by
Laurel Kendall
Call Number: BL2236.S5 K45 1988 c.2 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1988-02-01
Also available online.
Mama Lola
by
Karen McCarthy Brown
Call Number: BL2490.K68 B76 1991 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1991-04-02
Myth and Cult Among Primitive Peoples
by
Adolf E. Jensen
Call Number: GN470 .J413 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1963
Subcultures
The 60s Communes: Hippies and Beyond
by
Timothy Miller
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 1999
American Kinship: A Cultural Account
by
David M. Schneider
Call Number: HQ535 S33
Publication Date: 1968
Amish Children: Education in the Family, School, and Community
by
John A. Hostetler, Gertrude Enders Huntington
Call Number: LC586 A45 H67 1992 (4th floor)
Publication Date: 1992
Beggars and Thieves: Lives of Urban Street Criminals
by
Mark S. Fleisher
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 1995
Debutante: Rites and Regalia of American Debdom
by
Karal Ann Marling
Call Number: HQ1229 .M25 2004 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 2004
Falling from Grace
by
Katherine S. Newman
Call Number: HN90 S65 N48 1988
ISBN: 0029231213
Publication Date: 1988-06-27
Feeding Everyone No Matter What
by
Michael H. Agar; David Denkenberger; Joshua M. Pearce
Call Number: HV5822 .H4 A38 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 2014-11-17
Flappers: A Guide to an American Subculture
by
Kelly Boyer Sagert
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2010
Gypsies in the City: Culture Patterns and Survival
by
Rena C. Gropper
Call Number: DX201 G76 1975 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1975
The Hippie Ghetto: The Natural History of a Subculture
by
William L. Partridge
Call Number: HQ799.7 .P27 1985 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1985 (c.1973)
The Hutterites in North America
by
John A. Hostetler and Gertrude Enders Huntington
Call Number: BX8129 H8 H64 1980 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1980
Migrant
by
William H. Friedland; Dorothy Nelkins
Call Number: HD1527 .A125 F74
Publication Date: 1972-03-01
Muslim Women in America: The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today
by
Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Jane I. Smith, Kathleen M. Moore
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2006
Ripping and Running: A Formal Ethnography of Urban Heroin Addicts
by
Michael Agar
Call Number: HV5822. H4 A38 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1973-01-01
Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society
by
Leo R. Chavez
Call Number: JV6926 S26 C43 1992 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1992
Urban Anthropology in the United States: Four Cases: Black Families in Chicago, Chicano Prisoners, Portland Longshoremen, Black Families in Chicago, Fun City
by
edited by George and Louise Spindler
Call Number: HT123 U732 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1978
The Vice Lords, Warriors of the Streets
by
R. Lincoln Keiser
Call Number: F548.9.N3 K4 (4th floor, Special Collections)
Publication Date: 1969
Watts and Woodstock; Identity and Culture in the United States and South Africa
by
James O'Toole
Call Number: F869 .L89 N36 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1973
Women in the American Welfare Trap
by
Catherine Kingfisher
Call Number: HV1445 .K57 1996
Publication Date: 1996-10-29
Also, available online.
Urban
Beggars and Thieves: Lives of Urban Street Criminals
by
Mark S. Fleisher
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 1995
Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in An Urban Community
by
Steven Gregory
Call Number: F128.68.C65 G74 1998 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1998
Lifelines: Black Families in Chicago
by
Joyce Aschenbrenner
Call Number: F548.9.N3 A8 c.2 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1975-01-01
Ripping and Running: A Formal Ethnography of Urban Heroin Addicts
by
Michael Agar
Call Number: HV5822 .H4 A38 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1973
Street Corner Society; The Social Structure of an Italian Slum.
by
William Foote Whyte
Call Number: HV6439.U5 W5 1955 (Lambuth Campus Library - 2nd Level Stacks)
Publication Date: 1955
This book is not at the McWherter Library, but can be requested through our interlibrary loan services.
Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in An Urban Community
by
Elijah Anderson
Call Number: HN80 P5 A53 1990 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1992
Tally's Corner; A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men
by
Elliott Liebow
Call Number: E185.93.D6 L5 1967 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1967
Teaching and Learning in City Schools; A Comparative Study
by
Eleanor Burke
Call Number: LC5131 .L37 (4th floor)
Publication Date: 1969
Too Few Tomorrows: Urban Appalachians in the 1980's
by
Phillip J. Obermiller & William W. Philliber
Call Number: F217 A65 T66 1987 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1987
The Unequal Homeless: Men on the Streets, Women in their Place
by
Joanne Passaro
Call Number: HV4506.N6 P37 1996 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1996-10-02
Upscaling Downtown: Stalled Gentrification
by
Brett Williams
Call Number: HT177.W3 W55 1988 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1988-02-26
Also available online.
Urban Anthropology in the United States: Four Cases: Black Families in Chicago, Chicano Prisoners, Portland Longshoremen, Black Families in Chicago, Fun City
by
George and Louise Spindler
Call Number: HT123 U732 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1978
The Walls of Acre; Intergroup Relations and Urban Development in Israel
by
Morton Rubin
Call Number: HN761 P33 A37 (3rd floor)
Publication Date: 1974
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