Other examples come from a 2016 article by Robert M. Worsley and colleagues published in Criminal Justice Studies, which is based on interviews with eight leading ethnographers, of whom only one – Carol Rambo, associate professor of sociology at the University of Memphis in Tennessee – is a woman. Condoms were used in only 20% of the contacts.[6]. [7] Venkatesh currently writes about the advertising industry. This claim, unsurprisingly, has always been contentious. In September 2016, he took a position at Facebook. ", https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-book-club-gang-leader-for-a-day-2015-2, https://deadline.com/2019/01/edward-burns-radar-developing-the-line-between-thriller-novel-for-television-1202538907/, Steven D. Levitt and Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, "An Empirical Analysis of Street-Level Prostitution", September 2007, In the Windy City, prostitutes sleep with police more often than get arrested by them, Columbia’s Gang Scholar Lives on the Edge, Everything you always wanted to know about street gangs but didn't know whom to ask, Steven Levitt: the Freakonomics of inner-city gangs (video), SAJAforum web radio interview with Venkatesh (one hour), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sudhir_Venkatesh&oldid=967897490, University of California, San Diego alumni, American male scientists of Indian descent, All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English, Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 16 July 2020, at 00:15. Health/Medicine At the other end of the political spectrum, radicals sometimes raise questions about “positionality”. He also served as co-editor of the American Sociological Association journal entitled "City & Community". He has also contributed to Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner's Freakonomics in a chapter entitled, "Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live With Their Moms? The book chronicles the life of urban poor in Chicago, particularly the Robert Taylor Homes and the gang, the Black Kings, whose leader J.T. 11 To 20 Mins Race/Ethnicity Psychology/Social Psychology Self-described “rogue sociologist” Sudhir Venkatesh published a book called Gang Leader for a Day a decade ago, for example, and told THE about his close identification with a gang leader called J. T.: “We were close in age and similarly ambitious. Abortion/Reproduction He is a professor of sociology and African-American studies at Columbia University. Sudhir Venkatesh's ethnography examines a Chicago gang. Spoiling for a fight? Nationalism 00 To 05 Mins resort to. Prejudice/Discrimination War/Military Aging/Life Course Some ethnographers have been dismissed as too left-wing by conservative commentators. Politics/Election/Voting His most recent book is … When approached by Times Higher Education, several took the opportunity to respond to the points Lubet had made. was renamed in the book for anonymity). Intersectionality Multiculturalism Knowledge Goffman he befriended (J.T. Education Ethnographers claim that deep, immersive research can give us insights into communities – particularly marginalised communities – that are hard to obtain by other means. In his work, Venkatesh has documented criminal gangs and the drug trade, and has written about the dynamics of the underground economy including street prostitution, contributing his findings to the research of economics professor Steven Levitt. Organizations/Occupations/Work Gang Leader for a Day is not meant to be a handbook on how to conduct ethnography - it is primarily aimed in a sensational way at those outside the research community. Demography/Population You'll get full access to our website, print and digital editions. Food/Agriculture The gang leader is a complex character - an ultra-violent college educated gang member who left work because racism meant that he was never going to be promoted beyond store boy. Emotion/Desire Political Economy Bodies