List of social reports, milieu studies, field research studies and milieu novels
The list of social reports, milieu studies, field research studies and milieu novels contains social reports , milieu studies , field research studies and realistic literary works that describe a specific group of people, published in book form . The books cited describe groups of people and milieus that the respective author himself has got to know very well, i.e. through participatory observation .
author | title | genre | Year of publication |
Place of observation |
Year of observation |
theme |
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Alexis de Tocqueville | About democracy in America | Sociology, reporting | 1835/1940 | United States of America | 1831 | democracy |
Friedrich Engels | The situation of the working class in England | Sociology, reporting | 1845 | Great Britain | 1842-1844 | Working class |
Frank Hamilton Cushing | My Adventures in Zuni | Sociology, reporting | 1883-1884 | New Mexico | 1879-1884 | Indians of the Zuñi people |
Franz Boas | The Central Eskimo | sociology | 1888 | Baffin Island ( Canada ) | 19th century | Eskimos |
Franz Boas | The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians | sociology | 1897 | Vancouver Island ( Canada ) | 19th century | Indians |
Max Winter | Between Jizera and Neisse. Pictures from the small glass industry in North Bohemia | report | 1900 | Bohemia | 1900 | Factories |
Bronislaw Malinowski | Argonauts of the western Pacific. A report on the activities and adventures of the natives in the island worlds of Melanesian New Guinea | sociology | 1922 | Trobriand Islands ( Papua New Guinea ) | 1914-1918 | Indigenous peoples |
Margaret Mead | Childhood and Adolescence in New Guinea | sociology | 1930 | Papua New Guinea | 1920s | Indigenous peoples |
Marie Jahoda , Paul Felix Lazarsfeld , Hans Zeisel a . a. | The unemployed from Marienthal. A sociographic experiment on the effects of long-term unemployment | sociology | 1933 | Marienthal ( Austria ) | 1931-1933 | Unemployed |
George Orwell | Done in Paris and London | report | 1933 |
Paris , London |
1927-1931 | Poor, beggars and homeless |
George Orwell | The way to Wigan Pier | report | 1937 | Northern england | 1936 | Working class |
Arthur Koestler | A Spanish will | report | 1937 | Spain | 1936-1937 | Spanish Civil War |
George Orwell | My Catalonia | report | 1938 | Spain | 1936-1937 | Spanish Civil War , Frente Popular |
William Foote Whyte | The Street Corner Society. The social structure of an Italian quarter | sociology | 1943 | Boston | 1937-1940 | Italian neighborhood in the USA |
Margarete Buber-Neumann | As prisoners with Stalin and Hitler | report | 1949 | Moscow , Karagandy ( Kazakhstan ), Ravensbrück | 1937-1945 | Russian prison, Gulag , Ravensbrück concentration camp |
Claude Lévi-Strauss | Sad tropics | Sociology, reporting | 1955 | Brazil | 1935-1939 | Indigenous peoples |
Ernesto Che Guevara | Cuban diary | report | 1963 | Cuba | 1956-1958 | Guerrilla soldiers |
Ernesto Che Guevara | The African dream. The rediscovered diary of the revolutionary struggle in the Congo | report | 1965 | Democratic Republic of Congo | 1965 | Guerrilla soldiers |
Günter Wallraff | We need you. As a worker in German industrial companies | report | 1966 | Germany | 1963-1965 | Industrial workers |
Ernesto Che Guevara | Bolivian diary | report | 1968 | Bolivia | 1966-1967 | Guerrilla soldiers |
Günter Wallraff | 13 unwanted reports | report | 1969 | Germany | 1960s | u. a .: alcoholics in a mental hospital, homeless people, students |
Franz Innerhofer | Lovely days | literature | 1974 | Oberpinzgau | 1950s and 1960s |
Mountain farmers |
Günter Wallraff | You up there, we down there | report | 1975 | Cologne | 1970s | from small employees to the directors of the Gerling insurance group |
Gernot Wolfgruber | On the loose | literature | 1975 | Austria | 1960s, 1970s | Apprentices, working class |
Gernot Wolfgruber | Master years | literature | 1976 | Austria | 1960s, 1970s | Workers |
Günter Wallraff | The lead story. The man who was with "Bild" Hans Esser | report | 1977 | Hanover | 1977 | Journalists |
Hans Dieter Baroth | But it was a good time | literature | 1978 | Ruhr area | 1940s and 1950s | Mining environment |
Hans-Peter Martin | Night shift. A company report | report | 1979 | Dornbirn | 1970s | Workers in the FM Hämmerle textile factory |
Hans Dieter Baroth | Crumble cake in Ickern | literature | 1980 | Castrop-Rauxel ( Ruhr area ) | 1950s to 1970s | Mining environment |
Irina Liebmann | Berlin tenement house. Encounters and conversations | literature | 1980-82 | East Berlin | 1980s | Documentary-biographical about an East Berlin apartment building |
Roland Girtler | The eagle and the three points. The failed criminal career of crook Pepi Taschner | sociology | 1983 | Vienna | 1980s | Crime, forbidden gambling, prostitution |
Günter Wallraff | At the bottom | report | 1985 | Germany | 1983-1985 | Turkish guest workers |
Roland Girtler | The line. Sociology of a milieu | sociology | 1985 | Vienna | 1980s | Prostitutes, pimps, suitors |
Roland Girtler | The fine people | sociology | 1989 | Austria | 1980s | Nobles, managers, high officials, etc. |
Konrad Hofer | Undignified. Experience of a temporary worker | sociology | 1991 | Vienna | 1987-1989 | Contract workers |
Konrad Hofer | Work line. Among Polish black workers | sociology | 1992 | Vienna , Lower Austria | 1990-1991 | Work line and moonlighting |
Robert Geher | Wiener Blut or The Honor of the Strizzis. A history of the Viennese underworld after 1945 | sociology | 1993 | Vienna | 1990s | Criminals, pimps, prostitutes |
Konrad Hofer | Delivered. For the everyday work of truck and bus drivers | sociology | 1994 | Vienna , Europe | 1990s | Truck driver |
Roland Girtler | Marginal crops. Theory of indecency | sociology | 1995 | Austria | 1990s | Prostitutes, homeless people, crooks |
Roland Girtler | Poachers. Social rebels in the mountains | sociology | 1998 | Austria | 1990s | Poachers |
Sudhir Venkatesh | American Project. The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto | sociology | 2000 | Chicago | 1990s | Lower class |
Martin Auer | Whore taxi. From the life of the call girls | report | 2006 | Vienna | 2000s | Call girls |
Roberto Saviano | Gomorrah | Literature, report | 2006 | Naples | 2000s | The Camorra |
Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh | Off the books. The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor . German: Underground Economy. What gangs and companies have in common | sociology | 2006 | Chicago | 1989-1996 | Black sub-proletariat / American ghetto |
Roland Girtler | Gentlemen want to pay. The colorful world of waitresses and waitresses | sociology | 2008 | Austria | 2000s | Waiters, innkeepers |
Florence Aubenas | Clean. My life in the dirt | report | 2010 | Caen | 2000s | Cleaning women, unemployed |
Alice Goffman | On the run. Fugitive Life in an American City | Sociology, Political Science | 2014 | Chicago | 2000/2010 years | Lower class / American ghetto |
Arlie Russell Hochschild | Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right . German: Foreign in their country. A trip to the heart of the American right. | sociology | 2016 | Louisiana | 2010s | Right-wing populism, Trump voters |