SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Patriation, Official Statistics, Doxing

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Ryan Broll

Document Summary

The process of being shut out, from any of the social, economic, political, or cultural systems that determine the social integration of person into society (walker and walker, 1997:8: often related to citizenship. Social exclusion is multi-dimensional construct: poverty, gender, race, sexual orientation, etc. Homeless youths" circumstances often lead to crime: homeless youth who feel the most excluded are at the greatest risk for committing a crime. A group of individuals with identifiable leadership claiming control over territory and engaging either individually or collectively in violent or other forms of illegal behaviour (miller, 1975: 9) Often depicted as a race problem: black in toronto, asian or south asian in vancouver, aboriginal in prairies. Growth in american youth gangs attributed to: loss in inner-city working class jobs, rise in illegal drug trade. Paradoxically, many youth are initially attracted to gangs for protection: source of social support. Form of exclusion often based on race and ethnicity.