Who is frederic thrasher

Frederic Milton Thrasher. While gangs and gang culture have been around for countless centuries, The Gang is one of the first academic studies of the phenomenon. With rich prose and an eye for detail, Thrasher looked specifically at the way in which urban geography shaped gangs, and posited the thesis that neighborhoods in flux were more likely to produce gangs.

Moreover, he traced gang culture back to feudal and medieval power systems and linked tribal ethos in other societies to codes of honor and glory found in American gangs. Thrasher approaches his subject with empathy and insightfulness, and creates a multifaceted and textured portrait that still has much to offer to readers today.

With handsome images that evoke the era, this unabridged edition of The Gang not only explores an important moment in the history of Chicago, but also is itself a landmark in the history of sociology and subcultural theory. Search within Article contents Bibliography.

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Oxford University Press. Sign in to annotate. Delete Cancel Save. And nobody that didn't belong to the band could use that mark, and if he did he must be sued, and if he done it again he must be killed. And if anybody that belonged to the band told the secrets, he must have his throat cut, and then have his carcass burnt up and the ashes scattered all around, and his name blotted off the list with blood and never mentioned again by the gang, but have a curse put on it and be forgot, for ever.

Everybody said it was a real beautiful oath, and asked Tom if he got it out of his own head. He said, some of it, but the rest was out of pirate books, and robber books, and every gang that has high-toned had it.

Mark Twain published Huckleberry Finn in For the complete electronic text, click here. He was a colleague of Robert Park and was one of the most prominent members of the Chicago School of Sociology in the s. Thrasher's epic work: The Gang: a study of gangs in Chicago may still be the best study of gangs ever written.