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Streetwise sales and the social order of city streets
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Llewellyn, Nick and Burrow, Robin (2008) Streetwise sales and the social order of city streets. British Journal of Sociology, Vol.59 (No.3). pp. 561-583. doi:10.1111/j.1468-4446.2008.00208.x
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2008.00208.x
Abstract
This paper analyses how a Big Issue vendor approached passers-by and how they responded, how recognizable courses of social and economic activity were interactionally produced from initiation through to some conclusion. The paper recovers how the vendor's work was contextually embedded in the urban landscape, how it was constrained by, and actively shaped, the social order of the street. Drawing on video-audio recordings the paper contributes to a growing body of ethnographic and ethnomethodological research which has emphasized the embodied, contingent and interactional character of economic activity. By examining such materials, the paper is well positioned to describe how the vendor found his market on the street, social interventions that propelled passers-by into buying behaviour. The paper sheds light on now familiar encounters which occur millions of times each week in the UK and beyond.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Industrial Relations & Organisational Behaviour Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Big issue, Street vendors, Ethnomethodology, Periodical vendors, Markets | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal of Sociology | ||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||
| ISSN: | 0007-1315 | ||||
| Official Date: | September 2008 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.59 | ||||
| Number: | No.3 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 23 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 561-583 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2008.00208.x | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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