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.
“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...
評分几个小时的阅读,仿佛看完一场漫长的地下电影,每个人都如此鲜活,跟前几天看的韩国电影《黄海》如出一辙。 《黄海》很压力,压抑的氛围,压抑的色调,悲剧的故事结尾,太过于沉重。 阅读《城中城》的时候不自觉代入了那个“多一分好奇少一分恐惧”的作者的角色,虽然尽量想保...
評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...
評分如果沒有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。
评分可惜的是兄颱是個Sociology的學生 換成我大Anthro的必須比這還深刻精彩
评分翻譯太差
评分看到亞馬遜上好多人吐槽Sudhir作為sociologist其實好多方麵不專業但是我覺得這個大概不能完全算作research吧不能帶著在看thesis/dissertation的心態看。不管怎麼說和South Side Chicago的gang leader混在一起go native瞭六年多多少少會和隻做問捲和數據的研究不同啊。
评分Fascinating peek into south side Chicago housing projects.
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