素德•文卡特斯(Sudhir Venkatesh, 1966— )美國社會學傢,齣生於印度,哥倫比亞大學教授,主要研究城市犯罪組織、毒品交易,以及賣淫等地下經濟現象。曾經因癡迷感恩而死(the Grateful Dead)樂隊而追隨其全美巡演,順便研究青年自我認同問題, 後因博士論文“副産品”《城中城:社會學傢的街頭發現》知名,成瞭研究地下經濟交易活動的專傢。文卡特斯還有《暗箱操作:城市貧民的地下經濟》(Off the Book: the Underground Economy of the Urban Poor)《漂浮之城:流氓社會學傢的紐約地下經濟觀察記》(Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy)等著作。
譯者簡介
孫飛宇,北京大學社會學係副教授,主要研究方嚮為社會學理論。
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.
也许早在远古时候,人类社会就是这个样子,大部分人在温饱线挣扎,少数人以垄断资源的形式谋利,同时为了维持这个对自己有利的秩序,他们也会资助一些公益活动。JT巡视自己领域的工作,颇似中世纪的领主,听取下级的报告,树立权威,对控告进行判决,惩罚也遵照约定俗的规矩的...
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在網上看到有節目采訪他關於這本書的情況,作者的一舉一動好靦腆阿,嗬嗬。很不錯的一本書!對瞭解美國黑幫的運作!
评分如果沒有zukerberg的書單可能不會想起看這本書。不過一見到是當年freakanomics裏“芝加哥黑幫的經濟製度有如商業公司”的消息來源(所謂rougue sociologist),頓時就知道我非看不可瞭。非常精彩,現實比小說更小說。
评分讀完最大的感觸是在黑幫介入管理的社區的係統裏,每個人的各司其職與見縫插針顯得如此精巧。作者的感情太充沛瞭,廢話很多。英文很簡單,權當練閱讀。
评分"A drug economy, he told me, was ‘useful for the community,’since it redistributed the drug addicts’ money back into the community via the gang’s philanthropy."一笑。在《火綫》裏就感覺販毒也隻是(百無聊賴的)生活方式之一罷瞭。
评分在網上看到有節目采訪他關於這本書的情況,作者的一舉一動好靦腆阿,嗬嗬。很不錯的一本書!對瞭解美國黑幫的運作!
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