| Titre | Un mariage dans le Ghetto. | |
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| Auteur | Loïc J.D. Wacquant. | |
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Revue | Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales |
| Numéro | no 113, juin 1996 La famille dans tous ses états | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | La famille dans tous ses états |
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| Résumé anglais | marriage in the ghetto The ethnographic narration of marriage in ghetto serves to uncover some of the principles and forms of sociability specific to the contemporary Afro-American sub)proletariat and to reflect on the social conditions of construction of an object reviled in both social reality and social science Rendered redundant by the twofold transformation of the labor market and of the political field the resi dents of urban Bantustans have to make do with degra ded imitations and inferior substitutes of the goods rites and values sanctified by the encompassing society The profane millenarism that suffuses their everyday life is the vehicle not of resistance as certain populist sociology would have it but of mere existence within the cracks of the dominant institutions It affords an opportunity for stressing the virtues of ethnographic observation of the longue durée over three years in this case The latter allows one to imbibe the specific temporality of the social world under examination and to elaborate hypothesis in situ but also to eschew the logic of the trial by explicating the know ledge interest guiding the researcher an interest particularly incon | |
| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/arss_0335-5322_1996_num_113_1_3183 |
