What Is JT A Good Primary Informant?

1. Chp 1 Explain and give a couple examples of the methods the author uses to learn and gather data. Be specific. What are the strengths of these methods and what are some of the weaknesses of these methods? (consider if representative, bias, reliability, generalizability, sample size, what you can know, and detail, accuracy.) Explain why they are strengths or weaknesses.

The author of Gang Leader for a Day uses many resources to learn and gather data. First, He is told to go through surveys used by previous sociologists to find questions he liked. Sociologists use survey questions from their peers in order to create comparable results. The strengths of this method of learning and gathering data is the fact that if gave Sudhir a starting
Chp 2 Having a primary informant, like JT, is common in ethnographic research, even as you still have other sources and try to verify information. Give and explain a couple reasons why JT is a good primary informant? What are some of the obstacles that Sudhir faces as he seeks to do his research? Explain
considers himself a philanthropist because he quit his mainstream job in downtown Chicago to return to the projects to use his drug profits to help others. He helps benefits the lives of people in his community in many ways. First, he mandates that all his gang members get a high-school diploma and stay off of drugs. He also gives money to local youth centers for sports equipment and computers. Another such task J.T. does to help the community is to deploy gang members to Robert Taylor residents to help escort the elderly or even beat up a domestic abuser. As J.T. told Sudhir, “A drug economy was useful for the community, since it redistributed the drug addicts’ money back into the community via the gang’s philanthropy.” Because of J.T. being the leader of a gang, he is like a leader of a company. For example, J.T. often talked about how difficult it was to oversee the gang, to keep the drug economy running smoothly, and to deal with law-abiding citizens who saw him as an advisory. This compares to the leader of a company because they would also have to oversee their workers, make sure operations are running smoothly, and deal with people who don’t always agree with what the company is doing. J.T. is also similar to the leader of a company because they have to motivate their workers. For instance, J.T. always talked to his men about having pride in their work and had to motivate the younger dealers to brave the cold and sell as much crack as they could. In a