Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

Ranjeet Chaudhari SOC-100 Journal Entry 6 Sudhir’s professor tells him that he needs to share his research notes with law because black king members and JT speak to him about what they do like shootings and other illegal works. Sudhir doesn’t have any kind of protection while he interviews gang members and JT which causes him to think about his studies about the Black Kings. Sudhir meets with Ms. Bailey and JT and tells them what he has learned about the legal status of some of the research he has done. Ms. Bailey and JT, they both doesn’t seem surprised to hear that. JT says that Sudhir has become one of the gang members of the Black Kings. JT knows that Sudhir protects all the data he collects…

Sudhir Venkatesh is an Indian native who was a student at the University of Chicago beginning a journey studying sociology in the 1980s. Throughout this journey there will be riveting moments I personally did not want to end and some that make me want to stop reading. Sudhir takes the readers throughout the lives of gang members and ones living in poverty to further explore this section of Chicago. Venkatesh starts his excursion in the housing projects of Chicago to complete research on…

stays true to the book as the title clearly comes from Sudhhir Venkatesh’s one day experience as being the lead of the notorious gang The Black Kings. After three years of shadowing gang leader J.T., Sudhir grows increasingly curious about what exactly J.T.’s work is and how hard it can be. To give Shudhir an inside into his work J.T. allows him to call the shots for one day introducing him to the difficult decisions J.T. has to make when dealing with his drug dealing gang members, and various…

matches were other white people. This can show that what they say about themselves is contrasting with what the data shows. In the third chapter Levitt and Dubner talk about drug dealers and starts by defining conventional wisdom. Conventional wisdom is defined by dictionary.com “the ideas, opinions, or understanding that are considered to be generally accepted by the public”. To the authors conventional wisdom is usually wrong. His main argument that talks about the faultiness of conventional…

Ranjeet Chaudhari SOC-100 Journal Entry 5 Sudhir meets Ms. Bailey in her office which is rundown, but she rules with power. Ms. Bailey asks Sudhir whether if he’s going to study White people while studying Robert Taylor. Sudhir is kind of confused because most of the people living in residence are black. But when Ms. Bailey asks that question then Sudhir realizes that she meant people in the institutions outside the homes. Sudhir begins to understand…

Street gangs have existed in American history for around one hundred and forty five years. However, until the 1980’s, they were purely social organizations formed by member of typically inner city youths and young adults. However, the recent rise in the drug trade and the availability of crack-cocaine has led to the “corporatization” of street gangs. I will be analyzing two articles, the first ““An Economic Analysis of A Drug-Selling Gang’s Finances” by Steven D. Levitt and Sudhir Alladi…

access. In general, this male practice can be explained by the way males behave. In short, men tend to solve their issues with aggressions. Nonetheless, we live in a society that privileges white men, and anyone else that does not fit the model has to fight in order to be recognized. Therefore, the rest of the men have to prove their manhood, this can perhaps be based on their valor, which can be established by pulling the trigger. On the racial side, in the case of African Americans they have…