Plan de cours

PLAN DE COURS
SOCIOLOGY OF URBAN
MARGINALIZATION
FIELDWORKS, SCIENTIFIC LITTERATURE
AND POPULAR CULTURE
Professeur : Fabien TRUONG
Année universitaire 2016/2017 : Semestre d’automne
SÉANCES ET PROGRAMMES
Séance 1 : Introduction
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Sociology of urban marginalization: presentation and introduction
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Context: France, UK and the U.S.A
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Fieldwork: goals, approach methodology
Séance 2 : The Chicago School and the ecological approach
TEXTS
Louis Wirth, “The Ghetto”, American Journal of Sociology, 1927, 84-98
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Exposé: 1 person
Ernest W. Burgess , “The Growth of the City: an introduction to a Research Project” in Robert E. Park and
Ernest W. Burgess, The City, 1925
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Exposé: 1 person
MOVIE
Good Morning, Babilonia by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, 1987
Séance 3 : ‘Life in a American Slum’ in the 1940s
TEXTS
William Foote Whyte, “Bowling and Social Ranking” in Street Corner Society. The Social Structure of an
Italian Slum, 1943
William Foote Whyte, “The Social Structure of Racketeering” in Street Corner. Society. The Social Structure
of an Italian Slum, 1943
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Exposé: 1 or 2 persons
William Foote Whyte, “A slum Sex Code”, AJS, 1943
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Exposé: 1 person
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MOVIE
GoodFellas by Martin Scorsese, 1990
Séance 4 : Inner cities, structures and cultures
TEXTS
William Julius Wilson, The Truly Disadvantaged, 1987
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Exposé: 1 person
Alicia Goffman, “On the run: Wanted Men in a Philadelphia ghetto”, ASR, 2009
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Exposé: 1 person
Matthew Desmond, “Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty”, AJS, 2012
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Exposé: 1 person
MOVIE
The Wire by David Simon
Séance 5 : Expectations, aspirations and time
TEXTS
Jay MacLeod, Ain’t no makin’ it, Westview Press, 2009 – Chapter 5: “The world of work”
Jay MacLeod, Ain’t no makin’ it, Westview Press, 2009 – Chapter 9: 8 years later- The Hallway Hangers
Jay MacLeod, Ain’t no makin’ it, Westview Press, 2009 – Chapter 10: 8 years later- The Brothers
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Exposé: 2 persons
MOVIE
The Wire by David Simon
Séance 6 : ‘Bad schools’
Diane Reay, 'Unruly Places': Inner-city Comprehensives, Middle-class Imaginaries and Working-class
Children', Urban Studies, 44:7, 1191 - 1201
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Exposé: 1 person
Bowen Paulle 2014, « Coming Hard: The Primacy of Embodied Stress Responses in High Poverty
Schools », European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie, 55, 01, p. 83-106.
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Exposé: 1 person
MOVIE
Detachment by Tony Kaye
Séance 7 : ‘Bad students’
ABRAHAMS J., INGRAM N., 2013, « The Chameleon Habitus: Exploring Local Students’ Negotiations of Multiple
Fields », Sociological Research Online, 18, 4.
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Exposé: 1 person
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INGRAM N., 2011, « Within School and Beyond the Gate: The Complexities of Being Educationally Successful
and Working Class », Sociology, 45, 2, p. 287-302.
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Exposé: 1 person
REAY D., CROZIER G., CLAYTON J., 2009, « ‘Strangers in Paradise’? Working-class Students in Elite
Universities », Sociology, 43, 6, p. 1103-1121.
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Exposé: 1 person
Reay, Diane, Crozier, Gill and Clayton, John(2009) ''Fitting in' or 'standing out': working-class students in UK
higher education',British Educational Research Journal,
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Exposé: 1 person
MOVIE
Entre les murs (The Class) by Laurent Cantet
Séance 8 : ‘Girls in the hood’
TEXTS
Linsey Hanley, Estates. An Intimate History, 2010
Exposé: 1 person
Lisa Mckenzie, ‘Narratives from the inside: re-studying St Anns in Nottingham’, Sociological Review Vol. (3),
2012, 457-476
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Exposé: 1 person
Lisa Mckenzie, ‘Narratives from a Nottingham council estate: A story of white working class mothers with
mixed-race children’, Ethnic and Racial Studies Publication May 2013.
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Exposé: 1 person
MOVIE
Bande de filles by Céline Sciamma
Séance 9 : The ghetto as a Janus-faced institution
TEXT
Loïc J.D Wacquant, “A Janus-Faced Institution of Ethnoracial Closure: A Sociological Specification of the
Ghetto.” Pp. 1-31 in Ray Hutchison and Bruce Haynes (eds.), The Ghetto: Contemporary Global Issues and
Controversies, Boulder, Westview, 2011.
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Exposé: 1 or 2 persons (recommended)
MOVIE
Do the right thing by Spike Lee, 1989
Séance 10 : Drug and delinquency
TEXTS
Phillipe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg, ‘Intimate apartheid Ethnic dimensions of habitus among homeless
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heroin injectors’ , Ethnography, 2007, 8, pp 7-31
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Exposé: 1 person
Phillipe Bourgois , "Crack in Spanish Harlem: Culture and Economy in the Inner City.", 1989 Anthropology
Today 5:4:6-11.
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Exposé: 1 person
Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, « The Social Organization of Street Gang Activity in an Urban Ghetto », American
Journal of Sociology, Vol. 103, No. 1 (July 1997), pp. 82-111
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Exposé: 1 or 2 persons
MOVIE
Sweet sixteen by Ken Loach
Séance 11 : ‘Riots’
TEXTS
Lisa Mckenzie, ‘Fox-Trotting the Riot: Slow Rioting in Britain's Inner City’, Sociological Research on line,18,4,
2013
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Exposé: 1 person
Emma Casey, 'Urban Safaris': Looting, Consumption and Exclusion in London 2011, Sociological Research
Online, 18 (4) 8
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Exposé: 1 person
Fabien Truong, Total rioting : from metaphysics to politics. France, ten year after’, The Sociological Review
(to be published)
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Exposé: 1 person
MOVIE
Ma 6-T va crack-er by Jean-François Richet or La haine by Mathieu Kassovitz
Séance 12 : ‘Radicalization’… ?
TEXT
Scott Atran, In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion, 2002
• Exposé: 1 person
Arun Kundani, A decade lost. Rethinking radicalisation and extremism, 2015
• Exposé: 1 person
MOVIE
Made in France by Nicolas Boukhrief
MARKING
Oral presentation in class (exposé)
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Fieldwork and fieldwork analysis (short essay)
Oral participation and involvement in the classroom
SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bourgois Phillipe, In search of Respect, 2002
Davis Mike, Ecology of Fear, 1998
Hanley Linsey, Estates. An initmate history, 2010
Wacquant Loïc, Urban Outcasts, 2005
William Julius Wilson, The truly disadvantaged. Inner City, the Underclass and Public Policy, 1987
William Foote Whyte, Street Corner Society. The Social Structure of an Italian Slum, 1943
LEARNING A BIT OF FRENCH…
Here are few links to opinion columns or papers I have published in French newspapers & online journals,
linked to the urban marginalization topic. As it is quite short, it could help improving your French and grasp
your attention:
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About the youth living in the banlieues: http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2015/10/26/arretons-de-fairedes-banlieues-l-exutoire-de-nos-peurs_4797259_3232.html ;
http://www.liberation.fr/societe/01012300228-le-jeune-de-banlieue-n-existe-pas
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About the French soccer team "race" controversy in 2011: http://www.humanite.fr/09_05_2011-malaisedans-la-soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9-471790
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About the UK riots during the 2011 summer: http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2011/08/16/emeutesde-gauche-a-droite-denoncer-avant-d-expliquer_1559915_3232.html
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About the 10th "anniversary" of 9/11 http://www.liberation.fr/monde/01012358525-la-bombe-aretardement-du-11-septembre
And if you feel a bit more adventurous by reading a book of mine:
Des capuches et des hommes. Trajectoires de “jeunes de banlieue”, Paris, Buchet-Chastel, 2013. Three
chapters are entirely based upon interviews/ informal conversations. It might therefore worth giving it a try.
Jeunesses françaises. Bac+5 made in banlieue, Paris, La Découverte, 2015 Also :
Marie-Hélène Bacqué, Amélie Flmand, Anne-Marie Pacquet-Deyris, Julien Talpin (dir.), The Wire.
L’Amérique sur écoute, Paris, La Découverte, 2014. A collective and interdisciplinary book about social
sciences and The Wire. I wrote chapter 11 about ‘learning from and teaching with The Wire’.
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