Gang leader for a day - Thoughts

 I personally thought the whole book was a interesting read and i had a lot of fun reading it. I thought that it was a very different perspective on what people usually think of sociologists. This is mostly because i think of a group of people crunching numbers, statistics, and data to come up with a general conclusion based on analysis and data. Although i do not think that direct confrontation with the group subjects itself is inaccurate i thought it was very different what the general thought that comes to mind. I also thought that the main character showed a considerable amount of courage to go through such a experience for the sake of data and learning. Although the pay off was great in the end for him, i am sure that the main character had no idea where it would lead him in the beginning. In general i thought the new perspective was fresh and interesting but frankly i did not think that taking such a approach as Sudar did was very good for research in general. I thought that he would've been better off if he just did the general research like his professors and colleagues. In that sense the only really good piece of information i thought he got in such terms is the fact that he was able to get the accounting ledger from T Bone before he was sent to prison. Apart from that i personally thought that a lot of the experience the character went through brought in too much personal bias and detracted Sudar from the important big picture that he was trying to capture. I also thought that it was a bit sad towards the end of the book how things ended up for everyone as they lost jobs, got sent to other projects, and as some people even ended up in prison. Although i had much misgivings about the method used by the protagonist of the story, it was a great read and i would recommend it for the future group of students taking this class