Overview

This is an introductory textbook for students, like those in engineering, business studies, marketing, accounting, administration and management who need to improve their understanding of organizations and the people in them. It is also relevant to those who are beginning a specialist study of organizations, particularly as it helps to bridge the gap between theory and practice. It is fully revised and updated with new material on the importance of culture.

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[A] beautifully complex picture of youth identity....Who You Claim is a 'must-read' for scholars interested not just in gangs, but also in youth identity, education, urban neighborhoods, and violence more generally. -Andrew V. Papachristos, Contemporary Sociology

Garot should be commended for his well-written, exceptionally insightful school ethnography... I teach graduate courses on cultural differences and educational research, and plan to use this book as an example of how to design, execute, and present exemplary research, and most importantly, how to represent historically marginalized young people accurately, ethically, and in a manner that reveals their humanity in dehumanizing circumstances. -Annette Hemmings, Teachers College Record., [A] beautifully complex picture of youth identity....Who You Claim is a 'must-read' for scholars interested not just in gangs, but also in youth identity, education, urban neighborhoods, and violence more generally. -Andrew V. Papachristos, Contemporary Sociology Garot has provided deep insight into an inner-city alternative school showing how self identity can change and adjust to the surrounding circumstances and why gang identity is a variable that defies a fixed characterization. -Diego Vigil, author of The Projects: Gang and Non-Gang Families in East Los Angeles Path breaking and precedent-setting. Robert Garot has appreciated what no one has before, the essential shadow quality of urban gangs, which are not so much things one can be in as they are things danced around, avoided, played with, and very occasionally, practically invoked. -Jack Katz, author of How Emotions Work Written with the ink of theory, passion, fine attention to method and ethics, Garot represents with dignity the complex and strategic maneuverings of youth in gangs as he represents with humility the equally complex negotiations of a white guy ethnographer working with, for and beside urban youth. -Michelle Fine, co-author of Silenced Voices and Extraordinary Conversations: Re-Imagining Schools

Author Information

Sandra Dawson is Professor of Organizational Behavior in the School of Management, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London.

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