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Nettle's book presents the results of five years of comparative ethnographic fieldwork in two different neighbourhoods of the same British city, Newcastle upon Tyne. The neighbourhoods are only a few kilometres apart, yet whilst one is relatively affluent, the other is amongst the most economically deprived in the UK. Tyneside…


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Daniel Nettle is a rare social scientist: he writes beautifully and exceptionally clearly, and he is a fine interdisciplinary scholar who treats his predecessors with all the respect that they deserve (and no more).
In this book, published in 2015, he summarized years of multi-methods research by himself and several collaborators bearing on the questions of how and why the social lives and attitudes of people in an affluent versus a deprived neighbourhood in the same city (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) are vastly different. Every reader will have intuitions about these issues and some of those intuitions will be borne out. But there…

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