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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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Jan 1, 2008 · Venkatesh was studying sociology at the University of Chicago when he visited a housing project to administer a survey about poverty. However, he was confronted by a group of gang members who thought he was from a rival gang, and they held kept him overnight.
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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...
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.
Feb 20, 2020 · Venkatesh gets access to Black kings, the crack-dealing gang. Through JT, a gang leader who accepts him into his circle. The gang leader exposes Venkatesh to the business of illegal drugs, and the underground economy of poor people living in the housing project.
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This essay offers reflections on Sudhir Venkatesh 's book Gang Leader for a Day: KEY WORDS: gangs; deviance; social control; community; ethnography. What does America want of sociology?