SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Herbert Blumer, Corporate Crime, Caffeine

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Patrick Parnaby

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2nd day= 1 page fictitious story posted on courselink, in the exam 3 concepts will be given for you to define and relate back to the story half and half reading and lecture big concepts, theories, not small details. Interested in how we come to know something as deviant. Ex: drinking and driving: why is it seen as a social problem, why is it seen as a problem of failure of judgement/ morality and not an issue of urban planning/ car manufacturers, etc. Theoretical framework: her(cid:271)ert blu(cid:373)er 1971 paper o(cid:374) (cid:862) o(cid:272)ial pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)s as colle(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e beha(cid:448)ior(cid:863, concerns: Sociologists should be explaining how things became deviant. How much do they really know about sexual assault, prostitution, etc. Suggested: study how it is constructed and deemed to be deviant. Primary: have had first hand experience with the deviance (ex: victim of the crime) Secondary: people who are reporting on the deviance (ex: reporters, cops) (cid:272)ie(cid:374)tist, poli(cid:272)e, politi(cid:272)ia(cid:374)s (cid:272)hildre(cid:374), the poor, (cid:272)ri(cid:373)i(cid:374)als.