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Venkatesh’s “Gang Leader for a Day”, however, is a useful study for students to add to their academic arsenal for two main reasons: 1. It’s a contemporary piece of work (the author began his research in 1989 and completed the main body around 1996). 2. It can be used to illustrate a range of issues surrounding the use of participant ...
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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets. Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh. Penguin, 2008 - Biography & Autobiography - 302 pages. First introduced in Freakonomics, here is the...
- 1594201501, 9781594201509
- Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
- Penguin, 2008
Nov 23, 2020 · Sudhir explains his famous book 'Gang leader for a day' in terms of how he came to study the Black Kings gang on the Robert Taylor homes estates, his ethnographic methodology and his overall conclusions and findings from the ground-breaking research.
Jan 1, 2008 · As a grad student in sociology, Sudhir Venkatesh naively walked into a Chicago public housing project with the aim of researching urban poverty. Armed with a survey, he proceeded to interview the first people he saw, who just happened to be young, crack-dealing gang members.
Apr 8, 2016 · Download this book. Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World presents a sociological understanding of society but also a sociological perspective on how to change society, while maintaining the structure and contents of the best mainstream texts.
Dec 19, 2023 · The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics.
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