EPISODE · Mar 4, 2013 · 16 MIN
Shai Dromi on Beggars and Morality
from Office Hours · host Kyle Green
This episode we talk with Shai Dromi about his recent article, Penny for your Thoughts: Beggars and the Exercise of Morality in Daily Life. Dromi argues that past studies of the city have mischaracterized interactions between people passing by and people asking for money due to the focus on risk, fear, and crime. Instead, for many […]
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This episode we talk with Shai Dromi [1] about his recent article, Penny for your Thoughts: Beggars and the Exercise of Morality in Daily Life [2]. [3] Dromi argues that past studies of the city have mischaracterized interactions between people passing by and people asking for money due to the focus on risk, fear, and crime. Instead, for many people in Shai's study, homeless people's requests for money provided a dimension of moral reflection to the urban landscape. Download Office Hours #68 [4] [1] http://www.yale.edu/sociology/graduate/dromi [2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1573-7861.2012.01359.x/abstract [3] http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-SOCF.html [4] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH68_Dromi.mp3
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