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.
“我们住在城中城,他们有他们的世界,我们有我们的。如果你能明白,这一点永远不会改变,你就会理解这个城市是如何运作的。”——《城中城》,上海人民出版社:2009,p10 当我翻开这本书的时候,脑袋里一直都在想大二时上的一门课——“社区概论”。其实这是我大学里挺后悔的...
评分《黑帮老大的一天》中最精彩的部分反而是贝利女士的玲珑手腕。然而,贝利也好,JT也好,他们之于这个贫民社区(这其中有太多意涵)是大佬,是救世主,剥削者……,之所以有如此多的矛盾之处,恰恰展现出现实世界的吊诡。 其中,有反馈环路(正反馈环路和负反馈环路)的不断整合...
评分昨天在《南方都市报》上看到一文章,说《打死也不看译本》,因为看完这本书所以特别有共鸣! 这本书本身是在兰小欢的《一转念》里面看到,对书中这个教授充满敬佩,而且自己对黑人文化也比较感兴趣,很快就买了这本书。内容基本上忠于原著。但是翻译的真的是清汤寡水。没有汉语...
评分反正也改不下去了,索性来吐个槽吧。。。 昨天晚上看这个本书的时候,开头几页的句子就让偶很激动了>_<。。。作者在Chicago Uni读书的时候,给教授当帮手,去黑人社区发调查问卷。当他走进一个大楼的时候,遇到了一写黑bang成员,和他们的老大JT。JT把他的调查问卷拿过去看了...
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...
翻译太差
评分如果没有zukerberg的书单可能不会想起看这本书。不过一见到是当年freakanomics里“芝加哥黑帮的经济制度有如商业公司”的消息来源(所谓rougue sociologist),顿时就知道我非看不可了。非常精彩,现实比小说更小说。
评分Fascinating peek into south side Chicago housing projects.
评分写的太罗嗦了。太emotional了...
评分八十年代的芝加哥南区福利房社区中的社会结构。前面写得稳,结尾有点虚。再有就是没能完全掩盖住condescending的口气。
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