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It was described as a beautifully written account of South Bronx youths after the crack era, illustrating core sociological ideas.
The first and most relevant to this conversation is a book by Randall Contreras called The Stick Up Kids. It is about a group of the author's peers in the South Bronx who reached early adulthood at th...
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It was described as a beautifully written account of South Bronx youths after the crack era, illustrating core sociological ideas.
The first and most relevant to this conversation is a book by Randall Contreras called The Stick Up Kids. It is about a group of the author's peers in the South Bronx who reached early adulthood at the moment right after crack cocaine had hit its peak, right as the police had started to crack down and the market began to dry up. And it is a beautifully written book that illuminates what I think of as a core idea of sociology, which is how our lives unfold through the interaction of our own decisions in combination with a set of forces that lie outside ourselves.