Ubóstwo, przemoc i wykluczenie w miastach Stanów Zjednoczonych. Refleksje wokół badań Alice Goffman
Poverty, Violence and Social Exclusion in American Cities. Reflections on Alice Goffman’s Research

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the essay is to discuss Alice Goffman’s research, published in the book On the Run. Fugitive Life in an American City (2014), set against the backdrop of other research and current debates on social exclusion and violence in the cities of the USA. The first part of the text focuses on the social and scholarly context of the problems discussed. The second part relates the main critical arguments to the ethnographic research and the response thereto by the authors involved in this type of research. The last part of the essay presents the way of conducting her study by Goffman and offers a critical discussion.

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