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Llewellyn-Burrow2008
BibType ARTICLE
Key Llewellyn-Burrow2008
Author(s) Nick Llewellyn, Robin Burrow
Title Streetwise sales and the social order of city streets
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Tag(s) EMCA, Big Issue, markets, street selling, ethnomethodology, video studies.
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Year 2008
Language
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Journal British Journal of Sociology
Volume 59
Number 3
Pages 561-582
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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 inter- actionally produced from initiation through to some conclusion.The paper recov- ers 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 exam- ining 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.

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