Jürgen Hubert commented on Off the Books by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood …
It was reading this book back when I did my PhD, and when I read it I was struck just how much the academic "career path" resembles the "tournament career path" of street gangs as described in this book - and then I realized I needed to make an exit plan for academia. #Academia #IchBinHanna
Others later came to the same conclusion independently, so it wasn't just me:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/12/11/how-academia-resembles-a-drug-gang/
It was reading this book back when I did my PhD, and when I read it I was struck just how much the academic "career path" resembles the "tournament career path" of street gangs as described in this book - and then I realized I needed to make an exit plan for academia. #Academia #IchBinHanna
Others later came to the same conclusion independently, so it wasn't just me:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/12/11/how-academia-resembles-a-drug-gang/