SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Script Kiddie, Argot, Symbolic Interactionism

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

Document Summary

Dates aren"t important and neither are speci c examples. To understand the status inside the gang one would hear the terms president, sgt. At arms, striker (trying to become a part of the organization and they still aren"t in) Other examples are computer hacking groups: have their own language which is meant to create a hierarchy such as elite hackers and newbies and script kiddies (at the bottom) Same thing in prison (at the low end of the prison hierarchy one is called goof or dirty which refers to a child molester) Thus the argot establishes status in the subculture. If you are part of a pot smoking subculture and you are called a scavenger that means you only smoke others weed and never contribute. Argot can be e ective at establishing who belongs on the inside vs outside. Think about backers work about the jazz community; the public were squares as they didn"t understand jazz music.