Streetwise: How Taxi Drivers Establish Customer's Trustworthiness (Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust (Numbered))
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (632 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0871543095 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 257 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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DIEGO GAMBETTA is Official Fellow of Nuffield College and professor of sociology at the University of Oxford.HEATHER HAMILL is lecturer in sociology at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St. Cross College.
From the Publisher A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust
"Rem Tene, Verba Sequentur, Bhurma Shave." according to Please Cooperate. Accurate reporting from the field. It will bring a smile to anyone who's enterprise brings them into contact with the public "after hours". Every single one unique and a joy to chat with. Been through everything in the book several times. All true to life.
Gambetta and Hamill analyze the behavior of cabbies in two cities where driving a taxi is especially perilous: New York City, where drivers have been the targets of frequent and violent robberies, and Belfast, Northern Ireland, a divided metropolis where drivers have been swept up in the region’s sectarian violence.Based on in-depth ethnographic research, Streetwise lets drivers describe in their own words how they seek to determine the threat posed by each potential passenger. Picking up a bad customer can leave the driver in a vulnerable position, and erring even once can prove fatal. Written with clarity and color, Streetwise invites the reader to ride shotgun with cabbies as they grapple with a question of relevance to us all: which signs of trustworthiness can we really trust?A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust. In Streetwise, Diego Gambetta and Heather Hamill take this predicament as a prototypical example of many trust decisions, where people must act on limited information and judge another person’s trustworthiness based on signs that may or may not be honest indicators of that person’s character or intent. In Belfast, where drivers are locals and often have histories of paramilitary involvement, “macho” posturing often serves to deter would-be criminals, while New York cabbies, mostly immigrants who view t