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。
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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。
发表于2024-05-14
Gang Leader for a Day 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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...
评分冬天看到春天,12月看到4月,终于看完了这本书。 其实一点也不枯燥,我很难得对非小说看得这么仔细。冬天在被窝里睡觉之前看上20页,然后心平气和地睡去。 这本书的主人推荐给我的要点是,看看黑帮的运营模式有多么聪明——典型被商学院洗脑之后的角度。 我的印象却是持续不...
评分也许早在远古时候,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...
评分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...
评分图书标签: 社会学 黑帮 经济学 美国 人类学 社会 Sociology 定性研究
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.
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评分Fascinating peek into south side Chicago housing projects.
评分恩------ researching society and culture 课程的core reading个案-----
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。
评分Fascinating peek into south side Chicago housing projects.
Gang Leader for a Day 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书