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Jul 25, 2024 · Sudhir Venkatesh is one sociologist who did manage to gain certain insights into the life of a Chicago gang. This paper is the review of his book, Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (2008).
When Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago's most notorious housing projects, he was looking for people to take a multiple-choice survey on urban poverty.
- 1594201501, 9781594201509
- Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
- Penguin, 2008
Using Venkatesh’s “Gang Leader for a Day” (2009) we can demonstrate that although research methods may have distinctive advantages and disadvantages, the reality is not always quite as neat and clearly-defined as we may have suggested at AS level...
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Dec 10, 2020 · Sudhir Venkatesh recounts his way into Chicago's largest crack-dealing gang and how, while gathering information for his dissertation, gets to know his subjects as real people. The plot contains profanity and sexually explicit language and violence
Jan 10, 2008 · Examining the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, and often corrupt struggle to survive in an urban war zone, Gang Leader for a Day also tells the story of the complicated friendship that develops...
- 1440631891, 9781440631894
- Sudhir Venkatesh
- Penguin, 2008
Dec 19, 2023 · When first-year grad student Venkatesh walked into one of Chicago's most notorious housing projects, he was looking for people to take a survey on urban poverty. He never imagined that he would befriend a gang leader and spend the better part of a decade inside the projects under his protection.
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KEY WORDS: gangs; deviance; social control; community; ethnography. In his most recent book, Gang Leader for a Day (GLD), sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh chronicles his first foray into social science research at the tender age of 23 when he began his graduate studies at the University of Chicago.
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