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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...

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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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   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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   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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   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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   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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   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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   Why did Venkatesh ask people to take a multiple-choice survey?

   • 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.

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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?