Year: 2007

• June 25, 2007

  Article: Urban ethnography’s “saloon problem” and its challenge to public sociology

  This was my first article which presaged my interest in bars. And, given that the Anti-Saloon League was founded there, it presaged my interest in Oberlin, Ohio. “This essay assesses the legacy of urban ethnography’s (UE) early engagement with the “saloon problem.” Early sociologists (1880–1915) intervened in the national debate on alcohol on the basis…