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This article reports on fieldwork in Shanghai during 2007 and 2008. Orum was a Fulbright Scholar at the time teaching at Fudan University, and doing research on the topic of public space. Along with his students he examined how public spaces were used in several parts in Shanghai, plus they interviewed a number of recent migrants who worked as vendors on the streets and formed part of the informal economy. The article outlines the theoretical importance of public spaces in general, and then provides an interpretation of how those spaces are used both for a "theater of the streets" and a "safe zone" for political discussion.

410 children's reports of their parents' SES characteristics are examined & found to be essentially accurate. From P&P questionaires, children's responses to open-ended questions on their mother's & father's occup's as well as their responses to multiple-choice questions on their mother's & father's levels of educ were compared to the responses of their parents from telephone interviews. Accuracy was measured by computation of gamma coefficients of association between child & parent reports. Variations in accuracy by the sex, race & age of child are also reported. Overall, the gamma coefficients ranged from .70 to .84. AA.

3 traditional explanations of the rise of the Negro protest movement are examined in terms of the protest participation of Negro Coll students. The 1st explanation, the vulgar Marxist, argues that fundamental econ impoverishment may create the dissatisfaction required for a soc movement to emergy; it is not confirmed by the data. The 2nd explanation is the rising expectations view, which claims that if people of long-standing impoverishment are subject to heightened aspirations, then they may become dissatisfied with gradual improvement of their situation & seek to channel their energies into a soc movement; this is also not supported by the analysis. The 3rd explanation is the relative deprivation one, which argues that discontent, & subsequently, soc rebellion, may occur among people who evaluate their achievements by reference to the standards & accomplishments of some similarly situated persons who differ only in terms of having diff or more numerous advantages; this is also unconfirmed. The data consist of information gathered as part of a survey res study by the NORC from a sample of Negro Coll seniors of the class of 1964. The 3, 500 S's included in the study attended 50 diff predominantly Negro Coll's & represented about 33.3% of all 1964 Negro Coll seniors. The absence of positive results from this study is in contrast to previous studies of Negro Coll students showing the link between econ or status-related deprivations & participation in the Negro protest movement. Comparisons of these earlier studies with the present one are made, & it is concluded that the present study differs from these others in having a much larger sample & in dealing only with Coll seniors. In view of the findings, it is clear that a re-examination of the relevance of econ or status-related deprivations to the emergence of the Negro protest movement needs to be undertaken. AA.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Nature of the Case Study -- 1 The Case Study Approach in Social Research: Basic Methodological Issues -- 2 Middletown As an Urban Case Study -- 3 A Tale of Two Cases -- 4 Researching the Homeless: The Characteristic Features and Virtues of the Case Study -- 5 Oenology: The Making of New Wine -- 6 The Case Study Method in Sociological Criminology -- 7 Case Studies and the Sociology of Gender -- 8 Case Study in Family Research -- Conclusion: The Present Crisis in U.S. Sociology -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

"A crucial year for writing about cities and human lives on them Twenty years have passed since the turn of the millennium, and several key events have transformed the world of cities. Events related to war and terrorism changed the whole realm of migration, from international travel, to metropolitan demographic shifts, and to neighborhood policies. Here we can name: the attacks on the twin towers in New York (2001), the beginning of the war in Afghanistan (2001), the end of the Second Congo War (2002), the invasion of Iraq (2003), the attacks in Madrid and London (2005), the Boko Haram insurgency in Africa (2009), and the prominence of ISIS in Iraq (2014). Events related to the environment have shaped international regulations, urban development policies, and political movements. Here we can mention: the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami (2004), the entrance into force of the Kyoto Protocol (for reduction of greenhouse emissions, 2005), the entrance into force of the Paris Agreement (for limiting global warming, 2016), and the beginning of the Youth Strike for Climate international movement (2018). Events related to economics have changed the pace and the geographical epicenters of the world's development. Here we can name at least the global financial crisis (2008-2009), and the ascendancy of China as the world's second largest economy (2010). Events related to politics have been either the result of long-term processes or the marker for future developments, at the global, national, metropolitan and neighborhood scale. And here we can mention: the beginning of the post-neoliberal experiments in Latin America (2002), the Arab Spring (including the Syrian Civil War) and the student movements in Quebec, London, Mexico City and Santiago de Chile (2011), the beginning of the refugee crisis in Europe (2015), the ascendancy of far right authorities like Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro (2016-2019), and the beginning of grassroots social outbursts in countries like France, Hong Kong, Chile, Algeria, Colombia, and so on (2018-2019)"--

Public space is a topic of great interest for urban scholars and urban planners. Such space, like parks, sidewalks, and plazas, it is argued, can provide the common grounds where the inhabitants of a city meet, exchange ideas, even engage in a variety of cultural performances. This article reports on fieldwork about the use of public space in Shanghai today. We find a great diversity of uses, ranging from vendors who sell their wares to people who engage in heated and extensive political discussions to performers of Beijing opera and ballroom dancing. We also find that the local authorities use a light, and sometimes covert, hand in their oversight of inhabitants in such spaces. Finally, we discover that powerful social differences and inequalities between native inhabitants and working–class migrants, which have emerged during the period of economic reform and market transition, are now actively in evidence in the quality and use of public space in Shanghai. the article puts these findings within a broader theoretical context, concluding in the end that for many—though not all—inhabitants  public man is alive and well in Shanghai.