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BOOKS
Bartram, Robin. 2022. Stacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. [10-digit ISBN: 0226821145]
Burawoy, Michael. 2009. The Extended Case Method: Four Countries, Four Decades, Four Great Transformations, and One Theoretical Tradition. Berkeley: University of California Press. [10-digit ISBN: 0520943384]
Clerge, Orly. 2019. The New Noir: Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia. Oakland: University of California Press. [10-digit ISBN: 0520969138]
Glaser, Barney G. and Anselm L. Strauss. 1967. The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research. New Brunswick: Aldine Transaction. [10-digit ISBN: 0202363376]
Mears, Ashley. 2011. Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model. Berkeley: University of California Press. [10-digit ISBN: 0520950216]
Small, Mario and Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2022. Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. [10-digit ISBN: 0520390679]
Tavory, Iddo and Stefan Timmermans. 2014. Abductive Analysis: Theorizing Qualitative Research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [10digit ISBN: 022618031X]
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[1] I wrote these reading summaries as abstracts for loosely planned discussions. I also wrote these because I wanted to offer a demystifying and synthesizing guide that students with varying backgrounds in theory training could refer to during, and hopefully beyond, this course. There are certainly downsides to this approach. But, given our ambitious reading schedule and course goals, I think the pros outweigh the cons.