International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology

Vol. 5

Why American boys join street gangs

Stanley S. Taylor

http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/IJSA/article-full-text-pdf/837FD2641401

This scholarly journal is about young boys and what drives them to join a gang. But in this specific study they want to look at young boys to see the paths they take and how they end up in a gang. Not a lot of studies have been done on boys and gangs. Most of the studies are when the gang member is already established and is older. The topic for this journal is young boys and joining gangs. The research question is “What are the social factors that a young boy lacks that makes them join a gang”. We want to know what these kids are thinking so the data we need to do this research project are personal feelings because we want to know how these kids felt growing up. We will also use Hidden Social Patterns so we can see what these participants all have in common. The data gathering method they used for this project was in depth interviews. This is the best way to get information for this study. The researcher wants to know about the participants past so this is the best way. The type of Data Analysis method for this journal is qualitative. Each of the respondents were asked a set of open and closed ended questions and they were encouraged to answer freely and clarify anything they wanted to. Overall I think this was good research they did a good job at being specific on what they wanted to find. They were also great at executing the research itself.