Dick Hobbs is Professor of Sociology. He worked in a number of manual and clerical jobs before training as a schoolteacher and working in London schools. He undertook postgraduate work at the LSE and the University of Surrey, and worked at the Centre for Criminological Research at the University of Oxford, and briefly at the Polytechnic of Central London, before taking up a post at Durham University in 1990 where he worked in both the Sociology and Law Departments. He joined the LSE in September 2005.His interests focus on ethnographic work, working class entrepreneurship, the sociology of deviance, professional and organized crime, violence, drug markets, and the night-time economy. Dick Hobbs is currently working on a book looking at the sociology of organized crime in the UK.  He is also working on a 4 volume edited collection on ethnography, and a collaborative book on the policing and security implications of the 2012 Olympics.

• VOLUME ONE: THE URBAN CONDITIONJelly′s Place: An ethnographic memoir - Elijah AndersonEthnography and Housing Studies - Adrian Franklin"People′s Lives Are Hanging Here": Low wage workers share their experience of job loss - Amanda GunnThe Toilet Paper: Femininity, class And mis-recognition - Beverly SkeggsInside the Empire: Ethnography of a global citadel in New York - Gregory SmithsimonTalking City Trouble: Interactional vandalism, social inequality, and the "urban interaction problem" - Mitch Duneier and Harvey MolotochKeeping Ethnography Alive in an Urbanizing World - Roger SanjekThe Asshole - John van MaanenNew Hobos or Neo-Romantic Fantasy? Urban Ethnography beyond the Neoliberal Disconnect - Teresa Gowan Hospital Ethnography: introduction - Sjaak van der Geest and Kaja FinklerHabits and Amusements of Costermongers - Henry MayhewA Stranger at the Gate: Reflections of the Chicago School of Sociology - Nels AndersonPolice Lying - Peter ManningBehind Bars: Social Control in Licensed Premises - Phil HadfieldThe Hustler - Ned PolskyWine Alley: The Sociology of a Dreadful Enclosure - Sean DamerA Night in a Taxi-Dance Hall - Paul CresseyEast End Entrepreneurship - Dick HobbsEmpire of Scrounge: Inside the urban underground - Jeff FerrellBeing at Home: Space for belonging in a London caff - Suzanne HallVOLUME TWO: WORKWork Culture in the Nursing Home: Adaptation and resistance among nursing aides - Nancy FonerBecoming a Firefighter - Matthew DesmondBodies for Rent: Labor and marginality in Southern Louisiana - Rylan HigginsWorking in the Fantasy Factory - Elizabeth Anne WoodClinging to Collectivism? Some Ethnographic Shop-Floor Evidence from the British Lock Industry 1979-98 - John Black, Annie-Marie Greene and Peter AckersThe Driver: Adaptations and Identities in the Urban Worlds of Pizza Delivery Employees - Patrick Kinkade and Michael KatovitchSelf for Sale: Notes on the work of Hollywood talent managers - Sasha DavidOrganisational Time: Temporal demands and the experience of work in restaurant kitchens - Gary Alan FineService and Surveillance: Infrapolitics at Work Among Casino Cocktail Waitresses - Lorraine Bayard de VoloThe Fate of Idealism in Medical School - Howard Becker and Blanche GeerTeaching Wedding Rules: How bridal workers negotiate control over their customers - Marisa CorradoLadies, Flirts, and Tomboys: Strategies for managing sexual harassment in an underground coal mine - Kristen YountThe Bonus - Peter Bearman"The Dog You Deserve": Ambivalence in the K-9 officer/patrol dog relationship - Clinton SandersMuck and magic: Cultural transformations in the world of farm animal veterinary surgeons - Lindsay HamiltonClass in Construction: London building workers, dirty work and physical cultures - Darren ThielVOLUME THREE: BODY, SPORT & LEISUREUndressing the researcher: Feminism, Embodiment and Sexuality at a Queer Bathhouse Event - Alison Bain and Catherine NashThe Mundanity of Excellence: An ethnographic report on stratification and Olympic swimmers - Daniel ChamblissLooking Good, Feeling Good: The embodied pleasures of vibrant physicality - Lee MonaghanPugs at Work: Bodily capital and bodily labor among professional boxers - Loic WaquantDeep Play: Notes on the Balinese cockfight - Clifford Geertz′Hard′ Women and ′Soft′ Women: The social construction of identities among female boxers - Christine MennessonThe Female Bodybuilder as a Gender Outlaw - Chris Shilling and Tanya Bunsell′We′re Not From Norway′: Football and civic pride in Bergen, Norway - Gary Armstrong and Hans HognestadSkydiving and the Metaphorical Edge - James Hardie-BickAmerican Hegemony, Dominican Resistance and Baseball - Alan KleinBoyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities - Michael MessnerThe Occupational Culture of the Boxer - S Kirson Weinberg and Henry ArondSmall Groups and Culture Creation: The idioculture of little league baseball teams - Gary Alan FineScotland′s Tartan Army in Italy: The case for the carnivalesque - Richard GiulianottiA Woman′s Place is in the Cardiovascular Room: Gender relations, the body and the gym - Shari DworkinSport Ethnography: A personal account - Susan BrownellVOLUME FOUR: DEVIANCE"Banana Time": Job satisfaction and informal interaction - Donald RoyUp it Up: Gender and the accomplishment of street robbery - Jody MillerOne Hundred Dollars and a Dead Man: Ethical decision making in ethnographic fieldwork - Steven VanderstaayThieves, Convicts and the Inmate Culture - John Irwin and Donal CresseyBecoming a Marihuana User - Howard BeckerShifts and Oscillations in Deviant Careers: The case of upper-level drug dealers and smugglers - Patricia Adler and Peter AdlerIn Search of Masculinity: Violence, respect and sexuality among Puerto Rican crack dealers in East Harlem - Philippe BourgoisThe Madam as Teacher: The training of house prostitutes - Barbara Sherman HeylCrack to Heroin: Drug markets and transition - Bruce JacobsAlibis and Aliases: Some notes on the ′motives′ of fiddling bread salesmen - Jason DittonSociology of Vincent′s Place - Carl KlockarsA Successful Female Crack Dealer: Case study of a deviant career - Eloise Dunlap, Bruce Johnson and Ali ManwarMethods: The Sociologist as Voyeur - Laud HumphreysTaking Care of Business: The heroin users life on the streets - Edward Preble and John Casey