Interview with Professor Sudhir Venkatesh

Nov 23, 2020 · 35m 53s

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In this episode, Matthew talks to Professor of Sociology and African-American studies at Columbia University - Sudhir Venkatesh. Sudhir explains his famous book 'Gang leader for a day' in terms...

In this episode, Matthew talks to Professor of Sociology and African-American studies at Columbia University - Sudhir Venkatesh. Sudhir explains his famous book 'Gang leader for a day' in terms of how he came to study the Black Kings gang on the Robert Taylor homes estates, his ethnographic methodology and his overall conclusions and findings from the ground-breaking research.

You can download a student worksheet to accompany the podcast here - file:///X:/SociologyHSC/Sociology/A%20Level%20Sociology/Unit%201A%20-%20Socialisation,%20culture%20and%20identity/Topic%208%20-%20Ethnicity/MatthewEthnicity/VenkGROPDF.pdf

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