Tyneside Neighbourhoods Deprivation, Social Life and Social Behaviour in One British City

• Main Author: Nettle, Daniel
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Open Book Publishers 2015
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Anthropology; Anti-social behaviour; comparative study; Daniel Nettle; Dictator game; economic deprivation; Equality-Economic aspects; Equality-England-Case studies; ethnography; Human behavior-Economic aspects; Paranoia; Political Science; Poverty & Homelessness; Regional Studies; Social and cultural anthropology; social behaviour; Social Classes & Economic Disparity; Social Science; social solidarity; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; Tyneside; united kingdom; West End theatre

"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 economi...

Table of Contents:

• Front Matter Table of Contents 1.: Introduction 2.: Study sites and methods 3.: Mutual aid 4.: Crime and punishment 5.: From cradle to grave 6.: Being there 7.: Conclusions and reflections References Index Back Matter
• Intro -- 1. Introduction -- Prelude -- About this book -- The city context: Newcastle upon Tyne -- Motivations for the Tyneside Neighbourhoods Project -- Competing narratives: Kropotkin versus the Mountain People -- 2. Study sites and methods -- The study neighbourhoods -- Development of methods: General considerations -- Description of datasets -- 3. Mutual aid -- Introduction -- Round one: Social interactions in the streets -- Round two: Self-reported social capital -- Round three: Dictator Games -- Close to the edge -- The return of the lost letter, and other encounters -- 4. Crime and punishment -- Introduction -- The spreading of disorder and the maintenance of antisocial behaviour -- Littering and crime reports -- The Theft Game -- An experiment with information -- The strange case of the norms effect that didn't happen -- 5. From cradle to grave -- Introduction -- Children's use of the streets -- Social trust through childhood -- Social trust through adulthood -- No country for old men -- 6. Being there -- Introduction -- Perceptual experience and context sensitivity -- An experiment with minibuses -- The social diet -- 7. Conclusions and reflections -- Introduction -- Summary and implications of findings -- The economic grit and the cultural pearl -- Structural change versus nudges -- The ethics of representation and the value of ethnography -- References -- Index