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1. archive.org › details › gangleaderforday0000venkGang leader for a day : a rogue sociologist takes to the ...

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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. Includes index.

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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 full...

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   • ISBN: 1594201501, 9781594201509

   • Author: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
   • Publisher: Penguin, 2008

3. www.sociology.org.uk › notes › methods_gl4adResearch Methods - Sociology

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   A 50-minute programme from Fora.tv (split into a number of much shorter discrete chapters for your easy-viewing pleasure) that cover Venkatesh reading from “Gang Leader” and answering questions about the book and research. Venkatesh, Sudhir (2009) “Gang Leader for a Day. A Rogue Sociologist Crosses the Line”: Penguin.

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4. open.lib.umn.edu › sociologySociology – Open Textbook

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   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.

5. podtail.com › en › podcastInterview with Professor Sudhir Venkatesh – The Sociology ...

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   Nov 23, 2020 · – Listen to Interview with Professor Sudhir Venkatesh by The Sociology Show instantly on your tablet, phone or browser - no downloads needed.

6. issuu.com › cupeducation › docsCambridge IGCSE™ and O Level Sociology Coursebook ... - Issuu

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   Feb 13, 2023 · As a young sociology student in Chicago, USA, Sudhir Venkatesh decided to research the lives of people living in a poor area of the city. The area had many social problems, including high rates...

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   Who is Sudhir Venkatesh?

   • As a young sociology student in Chicago, USA, Sudhir Venkatesh decided to research the lives of people living in a poor area of the city. The area had many social problems, including high rates of crime and poor quality high-rise housing. Most of the people who lived in the neighbourhood were African Americans and living in poverty.

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   How did Venkatesh become a gang member?

   • b. Sponsorship: Access to the gang – and by extension the people who lived in the areas controlled by the gang – was secured in a classic way; Venkatesh was “sponsored” by “JT”, the local leader of the Black Kings (a situation that echoed Whyte’s much earlier (1930s) entrance into an Italian street gang through the sponsorship of its leader “Doc”).

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   Did Venkatesh write his life story?

   • Venkatesh also noted a further ethical and methodological dimension to his relationship with his sponsor “JT”: At early stage in the research JT seems to have used the idea that Venkatesh was “writing his life story” as a way of justifying Venkatesh’s presence in the Projects. Whether or not JT actually believed this is what Venkatesh

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   What ethnicity is Venkatesh?

   • Venkatesh’s initial encounter with the Black Kings was one where he was mistaken for a member of a rival (Mexican) gang – his ethnicity was variously considered by the people in the Projects to be “Mexican, “Spanish” or the largely-ubiquitous label “Ay-rab”. b.

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   When first-year graduate student Sudhir Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago’s most notorious housing projects, he hoped to find a few people willing to take a...