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SOCIOLOGISTS BACKSTAGE

From the Foreword by Howard S. Becker:

The stories in Sociologists Backstage tell how the contributors, who differ in so many ways, dealt with the situations they found themselves in as they did their research, and how who they were and what they had become in their lives intersected with those situations. The stories will fascinate you, and give you a lot to think about as you go ahead with your own research adventure.

Sarah Fenstermaker is Professor of Sociology and an affiliate of the Feminist Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the Director of UC Santa Barbaras Institute for Social, Behavioral and Economic Research. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Her research on women and work, domestic labor, family violence, and the workings of gender, race, and class have resulted in a long list of publications. She is the author of The Gender Factory: The Apportionment of Work in American Households, an edited volume (with A. Goetting), Individual Voices, Collective Visions: Fifty Years of Women in Sociology, published by Temple University Press, and Doing Gender, Doing Difference: Inequality, Power, and Institutional Change (with C. West), published by Routledge. Sarah is presently co-PI (with J. Mohr and J. Castro) of a Ford Foundation funded project, Individuals and Institutional Cultures: Faculty as Change Agents, a national survey of the professoriate.

Nikki Jones is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology and Criminology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004. Her areas of expertise include urban ethnography, urban sociology, race and ethnic relations and criminology and criminal justice, with a special emphasis on the intersection of race, gender, and justice. She is the author of Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence, which is published in the Rutgers University Press Series in Childhood Studies. She is also a William T. Grant Scholar (20072012).

CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

Edited by Valerie Jenness, University of California, Irvine and Jodi OBrien, Seattle University

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SOCIOLOGISTS BACKSTAGE

ANSWERS TO 10 QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT THEY DO

SARAH FENSTER MAKER
NIKKI JONES
University of California, Santa Barbara

NEW YORK AND LONDON

First published 2011
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Fenstermaker, Sarah, 1949
Sociologists backstage : answers to 10 questions about what they do / Sarah Fenstermaker and Nikki Jones.
p. cm. (Contemporary sociological perspectives)
1. SociologyResearch. I. Jones, Nikki, 1975 II. Title.
HM571.F46 2011
301.072dc22
2010033735

ISBN 0-203-84036-4 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN13: 978-0-415-80658-9 (hbk)

ISBN13: 978-0-415-87093-1 (hbk)

ISBN13: 978-0-203-84036-8 (ebk)

To our teachers, who first answered the questions about what they do

Elijah Anderson

Howard S. Becker

John Kitsuse

Robin Leidner

Allan Schnaiberg

CONTENTS

HOWARD S. BECKER

Mary Pattillo Pattillo explores her research on Black middle-class communities and considers how it reconfigured the boundaries of studying urban Black populations. She describes how moving into the neighborhoods she studies presented rich opportunities for data collection, as well as considerable challenges.

Scott Brooks Brooks shares insights from his years spent coaching young Black men in South Philadelphia. He describes how studying young mens transition from playing streetball to more formally organized basketball reveals structural patterns of inequality. Drawing from his field observations and life

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