素德•文卡特斯(Sudhir Venkatesh, 1966— )美国社会学家,出生于印度,哥伦比亚大学教授,主要研究城市犯罪组织、毒品交易,以及卖淫等地下经济现象。曾经因痴迷感恩而死(the Grateful Dead)乐队而追随其全美巡演,顺便研究青年自我认同问题, 后因博士论文“副产品”《城中城:社会学家的街头发现》知名,成了研究地下经济交易活动的专家。文卡特斯还有《暗箱操作:城市贫民的地下经济》(Off the Book: the Underground Economy of the Urban Poor)《漂浮之城:流氓社会学家的纽约地下经济观察记》(Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy)等著作。
译者简介
孙飞宇,北京大学社会学系副教授,主要研究方向为社会学理论。
First introduced in Freakonomics , here is the full story of Sudhir Venkatesh, the sociology grad student who infiltrated one of Chicago's most notorious gangs
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 . Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh managed to gain entrŽe into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment.
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. A first-year grad student hoping to impress his professors with his boldness, he never imagined that as a result of the assignment he would befriend a gang leader named JT and spend the better part of a decade inside the projects under JT's protection, documenting what he saw there.
Over the next seven years, Venkatesh got to know the neighborhood dealers, crackheads, squatters, prostitutes, pimps, activists, cops, organizers, and officials. From his privileged position of unprecedented access, he observed JT and the rest of the gang as they operated their crack-selling business, conducted PR within their community, and rose up or fell within the ranks of the gang's complex organizational structure.
In Hollywood-speak, Gang Leader for a Day is The Wire meets Harvard University. It's a brazen, page turning, and fundamentally honest view into the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, often corrupt struggle to survive in what is tantamount to an urban war zone. It is also the story of a complicated friendship between Sudhir and JT-two young and ambitious men a universe apart.
由于近期在做一个社会学的调研,就忙里偷闲看了两本关于社会学的书籍。《城中城:社会学家的街头发现》刚刚读完,阅读门槛比较低,读起来也是趣味横生。因为这本书不是社会学教科书类的专业著作,某种程度上是一本通俗读物,以讲故事的方式向我们讲述了一个贩卖毒品的黑帮老大...
评分归根结底,我气的是作者在处理关系上用的技巧。 作者在第二章提到说「在芝大,没有人教我怎么去处理与研究对象之间如此强烈的情感关联。在我所读到的民族志研究中,也没有提供太多的关于研究者在田野工作中建立关系以及如何处理这一关系的指导。」我不知道在当时这种指导的缺失...
评分 评分 评分花了三天时间,除去上课的时间,我读完了这本英文书,不是小说,但是却比小说更精彩,因为是田野笔记,所以有一份真实在里面。 作者是芝大的博士生,漫步社区街头的时候,想着自己应该做些什么。可能是对帮会的好奇,甚至骨子里是不是想成为帮会的一员?他选择帮会作为自己的研...
Fascinating peek into south side Chicago housing projects.
评分作者情感介入较深的质性研究。没想到此书出版还和斯蒂芬·里维特有点关系。
评分可读性还是很高的
评分比小说好看的非虚构,昨晚看到三点唏嘘了半夜。此书应与Factory Girls和剧集The Wire合看,来了解一种挣脱枷锁后发现自由天地并没有自由抉择的生活,常需在几种陷阱中选择一个跳进去的生活,在密布陷阱中要自己承担一切后果的生活,美国城中黑人和中国进城农民的生活
评分昨晚终于把最后两章翻完了。这是一个最初拿着Likert量表问卷去问黑老大你幸福吗的社会学博士生,最终走上田野调查不归路的故事。喜闻乐见。
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