Sociology Professor Sudhir Venkatesh Used Deception in His Ethnography of Drug

question 51

Essay

Sociology professor Sudhir Venkatesh used deception in his ethnography of drug dealers (Gang Leader for a Day,2008).Why did he use deception? Why did some scholars think such deception was unethical? If you were Venkatesh,would you have used deception in the same way? Why or why not?

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