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A second Chicago school? : the development of a postwar American sociology
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ISBN: 0226249395 0226249387 9780226249391 Year: 1995 Publisher: Chicago ; London University of Chicago Press

Kitchens : the culture of restaurant work
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ISBN: 0520200772 0520200780 Year: 1996 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Tiny publics : a theory of group action and culture
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ISSN: 15564851 ISBN: 9780871544322 9781610447744 1610447743 0871544326 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Russell Sage Foundation,

Gifted tongues
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ISBN: 0691074496 069107450X 140081409X 9786613133298 1283133296 1400824192 9781400814091 9781400824199 9780691074504 Year: 2001 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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Learning to argue and persuade in a highly competitive environment is only one aspect of life on a high-school debate team. Teenage debaters also participate in a distinct cultural world--complete with its own jargon and status system--in which they must negotiate complicated relationships with teammates, competitors, coaches, and parents as well as classmates outside the debating circuit. In Gifted Tongues, Gary Alan Fine offers a rich description of this world as a testing ground for both intellectual and emotional development, while seeking to understand adolescents as social actors. Considering the benefits and drawbacks of the debating experience, he also recommends ways of reshaping programs so that more high schools can use them to boost academic performance and foster specific skills in citizenship. Fine analyzes the training of debaters in rapid-fire speech, rules of logical argumentation, and the strategic use of evidence, and how this training instills the core values of such American institutions as law and politics. Debates, however, sometimes veer quickly from fine displays of logic to acts of immaturity--a reflection of the tensions experienced by young people learning to think as adults. Fine contributes to our understanding of teenage years by encouraging us not to view them as a distinct stage of development but rather a time in which young people draw from a toolkit of both childlike and adult behaviors. A well-designed debate program, he concludes, nurtures the intellect while providing a setting in which teens learn to make better behavioral choices, ones that will shape relationships in their personal, professional, and civic lives.

Manufacturing tales : sex and money in contemporary legends
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ISBN: 0870497553 0870497545 Year: 1992 Publisher: Knoxville University of Tennessee press

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Morel tales
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ISBN: 0674036859 9780674036857 Year: 1998 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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In this thoughtful book, Gary Fine explores how Americans attempt to give meaning to the natural world that surrounds them. Although "nature" has often been treated as an unproblematic reality, Fine suggests that the meanings we assign to the natural environment are culturally grounded. In other words, there is no nature separate from culture. He calls this process of cultural construction and interpretation, "naturework." Of course, there is no denying the biological reality of trees, mountains, earthquakes, and hurricanes, but, he argues, they must be interpreted to be made meaningful. Fine supports this claim by examining the fascinating world of mushrooming. Based on three years of field research with mushroomers at local and national forays, Morel Tales highlights the extensive range of meanings that mushrooms have for mushroomers. Fine details how mushroomers talk about their finds--turning their experiences into "fish stories" (the one that got away), war stories, and treasure tales; how mushroomers routinely joke about dying from or killing others with misidentified mushrooms, and how this dark humor contributes to the sense of community among collectors. He also describes the sometimes friendly, sometimes tense relations between amateur mushroom collectors and professional mycologists. Fine extends his argument to show that the elaboration of cultural meanings found among mushroom collectors is equally applicable to birders, butterfly collectors, rock hounds, and other naturalists.


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Kitchens : the culture of restaurant work
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ISBN: 1283311399 9786613311399 0520942892 9780520942899 9780520257924 Year: 1996 Publisher: Berkeley, CA ; London : University of CA Press,

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Kitchens takes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant. In this rich, often surprising portrait of the real lives of kitchen workers, Gary Alan Fine brings their experiences, challenges, and satisfactions to colorful life. A new preface updates this riveting exploration of how restaurants actually work, both individually and as part of a larger culinary culture.

Difficult reputations : collective memories of the evil, inept, and controversial
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ISBN: 0226249417 0226249409 9780226249407 9780226249414 Year: 2001 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.) : University of Chicago press,

Shared fantasy : role-playing games as social worlds
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ISBN: 0226249441 9780226249445 Year: 2002 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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"This classic study still provides one of the most acute descriptions available of an often misunderstood subculture: that of fantasy role playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. Gary Alan Fine immerses himself in several different gaming systems, offering insightful details on the nature of the games and the patterns of interaction among players--as well as their reasons for playing."--Publisher's description.


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Talking art : the culture of practice and the practice of culture in MFA education
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ISBN: 9780226560182 9780226560212 Year: 2018 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.) : University of Chicago press,

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