Tyneside Neighbourhoods: Deprivation, Social Life And Social Behaviour In One British City
by Daniel Nettle /
2015 / English / PDF
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Nettle's book presents the results of five years of comparative
ethnographic fieldwork in two different neighbourhoods of the same
British city, Newcastle upon Tyne. The neighbourhoods are only a
few kilometres apart, yet whilst one is relatively affluent, the
other is amongst the most economically deprived in the UK. Tyneside
Neighbourhoods uses multiple research methods to explore social
relationships and social behaviour, attempting to understand
whether the experience of deprivation fosters social solidarity, or
undermines it. The book is distinctive in its development of novel
quantitative methods for ethnography: systematic social
observation, economic games, household surveys, crime statistics,
and field experiments. Nettle analyses these findings in the
context of the cultural, psychological and economic consequences of
economic deprivation, and of the ethical difficulties of
representing a deprived community. In so doing the book sheds light
on one of the main issues of our time: the roles of culture and of
socioeconomic factors in determining patterns of human social
behaviour. Tyneside Neighbourhoods is a must read for scholars,
students, individual readers, charities and government departments
seeking insight into the social consequences of deprivation and
inequality in the West.
Nettle's book presents the results of five years of comparative
ethnographic fieldwork in two different neighbourhoods of the same
British city, Newcastle upon Tyne. The neighbourhoods are only a
few kilometres apart, yet whilst one is relatively affluent, the
other is amongst the most economically deprived in the UK. Tyneside
Neighbourhoods uses multiple research methods to explore social
relationships and social behaviour, attempting to understand
whether the experience of deprivation fosters social solidarity, or
undermines it. The book is distinctive in its development of novel
quantitative methods for ethnography: systematic social
observation, economic games, household surveys, crime statistics,
and field experiments. Nettle analyses these findings in the
context of the cultural, psychological and economic consequences of
economic deprivation, and of the ethical difficulties of
representing a deprived community. In so doing the book sheds light
on one of the main issues of our time: the roles of culture and of
socioeconomic factors in determining patterns of human social
behaviour. Tyneside Neighbourhoods is a must read for scholars,
students, individual readers, charities and government departments
seeking insight into the social consequences of deprivation and
inequality in the West.