A Public Encounter in New York City

This book examines the essence of a particular personal experience within a New York City public space. The principal approach, both theoretical and methodological, is the phenomenological perspective, an in-depth study of such a surprising experience in the real world from the first-person point of view. The book introduces a new concept of the situated self, that is, the whole entity of the respondent's subjective world about his or her particular urban experience in public. It is one's being-in-the-word or lived experience in the real world. Another important feature of the situated self is its comprehensive constitution of all certain human traits, perceptions, emotions, bodily sensations, cognition, and behavioral reaction, and their close situational connectivity to one another. By implication, this public experience of the situated self is a common denominator shared among regular users of New York City public spaces for making their city life with urban strangers more routinized, predictable, tolerant, and civic.

Demonstrates the link between the personal importance of a particular urban experience in public Introduces the idea of the situated self Appeals to those interested in sociology, urban studies, and human geography

Autorentext

Dr. Joong-Hwan Oh is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College of The City University of New York. He is the author of Examining the Use of Online Social Networks by Korean Graduate Students: Navigating Intercultural Academic Experiences (2019) and Immigration and Social Capital in the Age of Social Media: Messages of the American Social Institutions on a Korean-American Women's Online Community (2016). He also co-edited five books that pertain to some Korean communities around the world.

Inhalt

1. Framing an Unanticipated Public Experience in New York City.- 2. The Public Setting of an Unexpected Experience in New York City.- 3. The Essence of a Public Experience in New York City: The Situated Self in Public I.- 4. A Public Experience in New York City from the Lens of a Victim: The Situated Self in Public II.- 5. A Public Experience in New York City from the Lens of a Bystander: The Situated Self in Public II.- 6. The Present Style of Public Life in New York City.- 7. Conclusions and Implications.