Gang Leader For A Day A Rogue Sociologist - 1589 Words

Having read the book Gang Leader for a Day: a rogue sociologist takes to the streets by Venkatesh (2008), based on my childhood education (formal and informal), life circumstances, personal and professional life experiences, I perceive JT to be a lawbreaker. Moreover, based on how our society informally defines a criminal or lawbreaker, JT is clearly someone who does not or will not conform with our collective legal standards or requirements based on the majority opinion of the wider public. However, in contrast to this majority opinion, based on an article by Ballmann (2008) pertaining to the laws that define food culture, we find that based on these rules or laws of food etiquette in the unbuilt libraries of unpublished books of unwritten rules, there are perhaps volumes of materials regarding the legal conflict. For example, some may have to do with table manners, which can and do vary drastically from family to family and culture to culture, so much so that what is considered pol ite or appropriate at one table is the opposite at the next table within the same venue. Based on our collective culture within the United States and Ballman’s (2008) individual subcultural experiences within Southern California, she also finds that women are under the subjection, in her region of the country, that they are never quite good enough. She perceives that in order to be a woman and to be accepted into the local sisterhood, that a woman must always be discontented with herselfShow MoreRelatedLiving in a Violent Society in Gang for a Day: A Rogue Socialist Takes to the Street by Sadhir Venkatesh807 Words   |  4 Pagesneighbourhood in Chicago. It happens that he knocked on one of the roughest areas in Chicago on his first visiting where detained and nearly killed him. Fortunately, he didn’t have any injured, and instead, he knocked up an acquaintance with the gang leader J.T. This initiated his odd friend relationship with J.T for the following decade. Thro ugh this relationship and years spent in the Robert Taylor Housing Project he produced a fascinating piece of research into the lives of struggling working classRead MoreGang Violence During The 19th Century901 Words   |  4 Pages ¨Gang members have been responsible for 61 percent of all homicides [in Chicago] in 2011, up from 58.7 percent in 2010 ¨ (Hidden America). These are some of the few disturbing statistics about gang violence in Chicago; however, as many people do not know, gangs have not always been about drugs and violence. In the early 19th century, gangs are not what people perceive them to be today. 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