List of social reports, milieu studies, field research studies and milieu novels

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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 .

Social reports, milieu studies, field research studies and milieu novels in which the respective author was a participating observer
author title genre Year of
publication
Place of
observation
Year of
observation
theme
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

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