SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Masculinity

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3750
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

Enforced throughout careers other recruits: nolan (2009, right from the academy they are taught how to be loyal to. Police stories: police often brag about adventures, uses stories for status. Sub culture does exist in the dominant culture. Stories often act as backstage banter between employees: way for cops to bond. Problem was that some sub cultural research was about police. Sometimes the rules need to be broken to win the war on crime. If someone got hurt; they were vigorously using the force to subdue them . Talking to the media was a serious offence without proper training. Nolan 2009: masculinity is an important part in how officers are, status perceived and their perceived loyalty. More trustworthy status and masculinity: those who worked in the inner city are seen to have more. When you earn your ghetto strips" you are seen as.