Gang Leader for a Day...

For homework we read a passage out of this book, "Gang Leader for a Day," I had already read this book for my econoomics class. After re-reading this passage with a sociological mindset it was so interesting how much the article had to offer. When reading it previously the questions that the author kept interjecting about what he was describing seemed distracting if not pointless. Re-reading it the questions had so much to offer about how his experiment was developing and the difference between the two categories of sociologists: those that study by using quantitative and statistical techniques and those that study life by direct observation(Ethnographers). This passage also provided great information on the positives and negatives of each method of studying sociology.