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Social movements --- Political participation --- Political activists --- Mouvements sociaux --- Participation politique --- Activistes --- Encyclopedias. --- Political aspects --- Encyclopedias --- Encyclopédies --- Aspect politique --- Encyclopédies --- Mouvements alternatifs (politique)

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David Snow and Leon Anderson show us the wretched face of homelessness in late twentieth-century America in countless cities across the nation. Through hundreds of hours of interviews, participant observation, and random tracking of homeless people through social service agencies in Austin, Texas. Snow and Anderson reveal who the homeless are, how they live, and why they have ended up on the streets. Debunking current stereotypes of the homeless. Down on Their Luck sketches a portrait of men and women who are highly adaptive, resourceful, and pragmatic. Their survival is a tale of human resilience and determination, not one of frailty and disability.

Homeless persons --- Homelessness --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Social Welfare & Social Work - General --- Social problems --- United States --- United States of America

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Qualitative methods in social research --- 301.081 --- Kwalitatieve sociologische onderzoeksmethoden --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Sociological research --- Social science research --- Research --- Methodology

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Social change --- Political sociology --- Community organization

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Exploring locales such as city streets, bus stops, parking lots, bars, retail establishments, and discussion groups, Together Alone ventures into what is often thought of as the realm of passing strangers to examine the nature of personal relationships conducted in public spaces. While most studies of social interaction have gone behind closed doors to focus on relationships in the family, school, and workplace, this innovative collection pushes the boundaries of the field by analyzing both fleeting and anchored relationships in the seldom-studied communal areas where much of contemporary life takes place. The contributors shed light on the diversity and character of day-to-day negotiations in public spaces and at the same time illuminate how these social ties paradoxically blend aspects of durability and brevity, of emotional closeness and distance, of being together and alone.

Interpersonal relations. --- Public spaces. --- anthropology. --- bars. --- bus stops. --- city streets. --- communal areas. --- contemporary life. --- cultural anthropologists. --- discussion groups. --- emotional closeness. --- family relationships. --- interpersonal relationships. --- nonfiction study. --- parking lots. --- passing strangers. --- personal relationships. --- private lives. --- public spaces. --- public sphere. --- retail stores. --- school setting. --- social interaction. --- social perspective. --- social relationships. --- social ties. --- workplace relationships.