Best Ethnography
Elijah Anderson is an American sociologist whose research examines race, inequality, urban life, and the informal rules governing public behavior. His book Code of the Street, published in 1999, draws on ethnographic work in Philadelphia to analyze how structural disadvantage and the pursuit of resp...
Jay MacLeod is an American sociologist and ethnographer known for Ain't No Makin' It, a longitudinal study of young men growing up in a low-income public housing development. The book compares two peer groups with differing attitudes toward school and social mobility, then follows how structural ine...
Mitchell Duneier is an American sociologist known for ethnographic research on urban life, race, poverty, and public space. His 1999 book Sidewalk examines booksellers and other street vendors working along Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village, drawing on extended fieldwork and collaboration with parti...
Sudhir Venkatesh is an American sociologist and urban ethnographer whose research has examined poverty, underground economies, public housing, and gangs in Chicago. His book Gang Leader for a Day recounts fieldwork conducted around the Robert Taylor Homes and his sustained contact with members of th...
The Kunstkamera, founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great in 1714, initially served as Russia’s first museum of natural history and anthropology, showcasing anatomical anomalies and ethnographic artifacts.
American sociologist known for the contested ethnography "On the Run" (2014), which studied policing and fugitive life in a Black neighborhood in Philadelphia.
