• DOI:10.1086/682023
Corpus ID: 10034380

The Sound of Stigmatization: Sonic Habitus, Sonic Styles, and Boundary Work in an Urban Slum1

@article{Schwarz2015TheSO,
  title={The Sound of Stigmatization: Sonic Habitus, Sonic Styles, and Boundary Work in an Urban Slum1},
  author={O. Schwarz},
  journal={American Journal of Sociology},
  year={2015},
  volume={121},
  pages={205 - 242}
}

• O. Schwarz
• Published 2015
• Medicine, Sociology
• American Journal of Sociology

Based on focus groups and interviews with student renters in an Israeli slum, the article explores the contributions of differences in sonic styles and sensibilities to boundary work, social categorization, and evaluation. Alongside visual cues such as broken windows, bad neighborhoods are characterized by sonic cues, such as shouts from windows. Students understand “being ghetto” as being loud in a particular way and use loudness as a central resource in their boundary work. Loudness is read… Expand

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