Telling The Code of the Street: An ethnomethodological ethnography

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 24-50

  Jimerson, Jason B ^a   Oware, Matthew K ^b  

^a Faculty of Social and Political Sciences   (United States)

^b DEPAUW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounts; Ethnomethodology; Masculinity; Race; Sport

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644972605     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: 15525414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891241605280417     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Anderson, Elijah. 1990. Streetwise: Race, class, and change in an urban community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2. Anderson, Elijah. 1994. The code of the streets. The Atlantic Monthly 273 (5). 81-94.
3. Anderson, Elijah. 1999. Code of the street: decency, violence, and the moral life of the inner city. New York: Norton.
4. Anderson, Elijah. 2002. The ideologically driven critique. American Journal of Sociology 107: 1533-1550.
5. Baxter, Vern, and A. V. Margavio. 2000. Honor, status, and aggression in economic exchange. Sociological Theory 18: 399-416.
6. Bellitto, Christopher M. 1995. Chivalry: A door to teaching the middle ages. The History Teacher 28: 479-485.
7. Benton, Don. 1996. Introduction: Speak my name. In Speak my name: Black masculinity and the American dream, edited by Don Belton, 1-5. Boston: Beacon.
8. Blake, Wayne M., and Carol A. Darling. 1994. The dilemmas of the African American male. Journal of Black Studies 24: 402-415.
9. Blumer, Herbert. 1969. Symbolic interactionism. Berkeley: University of California Press.
10. Boyd, Todd. 1997. Am I black enough for you? Popular culture from the 'hood and beyond. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
11. Brown, Stephanie, and Keith Clark. 2003. Melodramas of beset black manhood? Mediations on African-American masculinity as scholarly topics and social menace; An introduction. Callaloo 26 (3). 732-737.
12. Curry, Timothy Jon. 1991. Fraternal bonding in the locker room: A profeminist analysis of talk about competition and women. Sociology of Sport Journal 8: 119-135.
13. Dellinger, Kirsten, and Christine L. Williams. 1997. Makeup at work: Negotiating appearance rules in the workplace. Gender and Society 11: 151-177.
14. Dixon, Ruth B., and Lenore J. Weitzman. 1982. When husbands file for divorce. Journal of Marriage and the Family 44: 103-115.
15. Eder, Donna, and Janet Lynne Enke. 1991. The structure of gossip: Opportunities and constraints on collective expression among adolescents. American Sociological Review 56: 494-508.
16. Edwards, Harry. 1971. The sources of the black athletes' superiority. The Black Scholar 4: 32-41.
17. Elias, Norbert. 1978. The history of manners. Vol. 1, The civilizing process. Trans. E. Jephcott. New York: Pantheon.
18. Ellis, Trey. 1995. How does it feel to be a problem? In Speak my name: Black men on black masculinity and the American dream, edited by Don Shelton, 9-11. Boston: Beacon.
19. Ewick, P., and S. Silbey. 1995. Subversive stories and hegemonic tales: Towards a sociology of narrative. Law and Society Review 29 (2). 197-226.
20. Feagin, Joe. 1991. The continuing significance of race: Antiblack discrimination in public places. American Sociological Review 56: 101-116.
21. Ferguson, Susan J. 2004. Mapping the social landscape: Readings in sociology. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.
22. Frankenburg, Ruth. 1994. White women, race matters: The social construction of whiteness. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
23. Gardner, Carol Brooks. 1995. Passing by: Gender and public harassment. Berkeley: University of California Press.
24. Garfinkel, Harold. 1956. Conditions of successful degradation ceremonies. The American Journal of Sociology 61: 420-424.
25. Garfinkel, Harold. 1967. Studies in ethnomethodology. Cambridge, MA: Prentice Hall.
26. Goffman, Erving. 1959. The moral career of the mental patient. Psychiatry. Reprinted in Asylums: Essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates. New York: Doubleday.
27. Goffman, Erving. 1967. Deference and demeanor. In Interaction Ritual. New York: Pantheon.
28. Goffman, Erving. 1971. Relations in public. New York: Harper & Row.
29. Hall, Elaine J. 1993. Waitering/waitressing: Engendering the work of table servers. Gender and Society 7: 329-346.
30. Heritage, John. 1984. Garfinkel and ethnomethodology. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
31. Holstein, James A. 1987. Producing gender effects on involuntary mental hospitalization. Social Problems 34: 141-155.
32. Jimerson, Jason. 1999. Who has next? The Symbolic, rational, and methodical use of norms in pickup basketball. Social Psychology Quarterly 62: 136-156.
33. Kane, Martin. 1971. An assessment of "black is best." Sports Illustrated 3: 72-83.
34. Katz, Jack. 1988. Seductions of crime. New York: Basic Books.
35. Klapp, Orrin E. 1949. The fool as a social type. American Journal of Sociology 55: 157-162.
36. Lewis, Oscar. 1968. The culture of poverty. In On understanding poverty: Perspectives from the social sciences, edited by Daniel P. Moynihan, 187-200. New York: Basic Books.
37. Lyman, Peter. 1987. The fraternal bond as a joking relationship: A case study of the role of sexist jokes in male group bonding. In Changing men: New directions in research on men and masculinity, edited by Michael S. Kimmel, 148-163. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
38. MacLeod, Jay. 1987. Ain't no makin' it: Leveled aspirations in a low-income neighborhood. Boulder, CO: Westview.
39. Massey, Garth. 2003. Readings for sociology. New York: Norton.
40. Maynard, Douglas W. 2003. Bad news, good news: Conversational order in everyday talk and clinical settings. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
41. Merton, Robert K. 1967. On theoretical sociology: Five essays, old and new. Toronto, Canada: Free Press.
42. Mills, C. Wright. 1940. Situated actions and vocabularies of motive. American Sociological Review 5: 904-913.
43. Morrill, Calvin. 1991. Conflict management, honor, and organizational change. The American Journal of Sociology 97: 585-621.
44. Newman, David M. 2004. Sociology: Exploring the architecture of everyday life. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge.
45. Newman, David M., and Jodi O'Brien, eds. 2004. Sociology: Exploring the architecture of everyday life readings. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge.
46. Olberg, Dag. 1995. The theory of heroic defeats: A mixed motivation approach. Sociological Theory 13: 178-196.
47. Orbuch, Terri L. 1997. People's accounts count: The sociology of accounts. Annual Review of Sociology 23: 455-478.
48. Price, S. L., and Grace Cornelius. 1997. What ever happened to the white athlete? Sports Illustrated 87 (23). 30-42.
49. Ross, Marlon. 1998. In search of black masculinities. Feminist Studies 24: 599-619.
50. Rubinstein, Ruth. 1995. Dress codes: Meanings and messages in American culture. Boulder, CO: Westview.
51. Schegloff, Emanuel. 1987. Analyzing single episodes of interaction: An exercise in conversation analysis. Social Psychological Quarterly. 50: 101-114.
52. Scott, Marvin B., and Stanford M. Lyman. 1968. Accounts. American Sociological Review 33: 46-62.
53. Spencer, William J. 1994. Mutual relevance of ethnography and discourse. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 23: 267-279.
54. Sykes, Gresham M., and David Matza. 1957. Techniques of delinquency: A theory of delinquency. American Sociological Review 22: 664-670.
55. Turner, Roy. 1974. Words, utterances, activities. In Understanding everyday life: Towards a reconstruction of sociological knowledge, edited by J. D. Douglas, 169-187. London: Routledge.
56. Wacquant, Loic. 2002. Scrutinizing the street: Poverty, morality, and the pitfalls of urban ethnography. American Journal of Sociology 107: 1468-1532.
57. West, Candace, and Don H. Zimmerman. 1987. Doing gender. Gender and Society 1: 125-151.
58. Wieder, D. Lawrence. 1974a. Language and social reality: the case of telling the convict code. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
59. Wieder, D. Lawrence. 1974b. Telling the code. In Ethnomethodology, edited by Roy Turner, 144-172. New York: Penguin.
60. Wilson, William Julius. 1980. The declining significance of race: Blacks and changing American institutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
61. Wilson, William Julius. 1987. The truly disadvantaged: The inner city, the underclass, and public policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
62. Young, Alford. 1999. The (non)accumulation of capital: Explicating the relationship of structure and agency in the lives of poor black men. Sociological Theory 17: 201-227.