SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dominant Culture, Erving Goffman, Telling Stories
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Identifying priorities for the organization: police goals: related to how the public perceives the police, division of responsibilities. Based on a hierarchal: based on rational decisions, power and authority that are all well defined, detectives are specialized in specific areas (ex. Swat elevates status people see you better) operation look at literature, how they train their officers: when the proposed change becomes an important part of, occurs in an agency with certain norms that are incorporated. Is more of a service: more officers do have knowledge = more institutionalization, performance, degrees to which behaviours are preformed, preferences. If you don"t want to go back cut ties nicely: the subculture that was looked at resembles what. Instructors (importance: to emphasize the shaping of the civilian and salvation of the police officer, reinforce the idea that every seat in the class is a, police subcultures (values.
