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Sudhir Venkatesh

Sociology

#248

World Rank

#320

Historical Rank

#120

USA Rank

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Sudhir Venkatesh's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of Chicago
Masters Sociology University of Chicago
Bachelors Mathematics University of California, San Diego

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According to Wikipedia, Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh is an American sociologist and urban ethnographer. He is William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology & African-American Studies at Columbia University, a position he has held since 1999. In his work, Venkatesh has studied gangs and underground economies, public housing, advertising and technology. As of 2018, he is the Director of Signal: The Tech & Society Lab at Columbia University.

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Sudhir Venkatesh's Published Works

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Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor (2006) (509)
American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto (2002) (314)
The Social Organization of Street Gang Activity in an Urban Ghetto (1997) (286)
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang&Apos;S Finances (1998) (274)
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (2008) (249)
“Are we a family or a business?” History and disjuncture in the urban American street gang (2000) (136)
Underground Gun Markets (2005) (129)
Vice Careers: The Changing Contours of Sex Work in New York City (2006) (88)
The Urban Street Gang after 1970 (2003) (78)
`Doin' the Hustle' (2002) (69)
Growing Up in the Projects: The Economic Lives of a Cohort of Men Who Came of Age in Chicago Public Housing (2001) (65)
Gang Leader for a Day (2008) (64)
An Empirical Analysis of Street-Level Prostitution (2007) (64)
A “Perversion” of Choice (2008) (56)
The Reflexive Turn: The Rise of First-Person Ethnography (2013) (51)
Gender and Outlaw Capitalism: A Historical Account of the Black Sisters United "Girl Gang" (1998) (48)
Gang leader for a day : a rogue sociologist crosses the line (2009) (47)
American Project (2000) (36)
Chicago's Pragmatic Planners (2001) (31)
The Three-Tier Model: How Helping Occurs in Urban, Poor Communities (1997) (29)
Evaluating Mentoring Programs (2009) (28)
Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy (2013) (20)
On Urban Ethnography (2015) (17)
Getting Ahead: Social Mobility among the Urban Poor (1994) (16)
Community-based interventions into street gang activity (1999) (14)
1. A Note on Social Theory and the American Street Gang (2003) (13)
Legal Innovation and the Control of Gang Behavior (2007) (12)
Social media governance: can social media companies motivate voluntary rule following behavior among their users? (2019) (10)
Off the Books (2006) (10)
Whither the ‘socially isolated’ city? (2003) (8)
No Two Ghettos Are Alike (8)
Ethnography at the Edge: Crime, Deviance, and Field Research, edited by Jeff Ferrell and Mark S. Hamm:Ethnography at the Edge: Crime, Deviance, and Field Research (1999) (7)
Sociology and Katrina (2006) (6)
Underground Markets as Fields in Transition: Sex Work in New York City† (2013) (5)
A Race to reflexivity (2012) (5)
Chicago's Pragmatic Planners: American Sociology and the Myth of Community (2001) (5)
The Sociology of Deviance: An Obituary.Colin Sumner (1995) (4)
The Promise of Ethnographic Research: The Researcher's Dilemma (1999) (4)
Black and Blue (2015) (4)
Poverty and Informal Economies (2016) (4)
Research Design for the Study of Mixed-Income Housing (2009) (4)
Gang Life in Two Cities: An Insider’s Journey (2015) (3)
Learnin’ the Trade: Conversations with a Gangsta’ (1994) (3)
:Citizens, Cops, and Power: Recognizing the Limits of Community Policing (2009) (3)
Gang Leader for a Day: A Response to the Critics (2009) (3)
Herbert J. Gans: An Introduction (2007) (3)
Acknowledging the Structural Features of Choice (2013) (3)
The Myth of Advertising: The Art of Legitimacy (2015) (2)
Book Reviews (1999) (2)
The Racial Dilemma in Urban Policing (2012) (2)
Off the Books (2009) (2)
THE STATE IN PUBLIC HOUSING RESEARCH (2003) (1)
The Inevitable Gang (2014) (1)
The Social Outcomes of Street Gang Involvement (2001) (1)
Public Enemy # 1 ? Gang Crime Myths and Realities ChaPtER 6 (2007) (0)
Why Criminals Tell Us the Truth (2015) (0)
Writing Outside the (Sociological) Box (2014) (0)
“Troublemakers,” “average kids,” and “better-behaved youth”: The politics of labeling in social service delivery (2001) (0)
People and Folks: Gangs, Crime, and the Underclass in a Rustbelt City.By John Hagedorn. Lake View Press, 1997. 237 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $19.95 (2000) (0)
The Social Outcomes of Street Gang Involvement. JCPR Working Paper. (2001) (0)
Book Reviews (1998) (0)
Race and Philanthropy: An Introduction (2002) (0)
The Karma of Brown Folk, by Vijay Prashad (2001) (0)
Book Reviews (2001) (0)
Social media governance: can social media companies motivate voluntary rule following behavior among their users? (2019) (0)
Reviews (2002) (0)
Down and Out in the Homeland: $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America (2016) (0)
Reply to Critics (2008) (0)
Research Designs for the Study of Mixed-Income Housing: Social Science Research Council (2009) (0)
Where Did They Go? Where are They Now? Chicago Public Housing Residents after HOPE VI (2010) (0)
Resident's Journal : By and For Public Housing Tenants: An Interview with Editor Ethan Michaeli (2002) (0)
Starting from Scratch: Community: Pursuing the Dream, Living the Reality by Suzanne Keller. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003, 352 Pages (2003) (0)
A Literature Review of Aging in the Street Gang The importance of time (2001) (0)
Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio. By Mario Luis Small. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. 226. (2005) (0)
10. What about the Day After? Youth Culture in the Era of “Law and Order” (2015) (0)

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