SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sexual Assault, Symbolic Interactionism, Risk Society
13 Apr 2016
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How the manage themselves in real life. Gofman (presentaion of self in everyday life, 1959: when in private we can act like ourselves infront of others we act a certain way. Back stage: we are all imposters, public idenity (police present themselves to the public. Forecast possible risk in making decisions: parole- assess the risk of person reofending. Ericson & haggerty (policing the risk society, 1997) Police are expected to be more proacive: research bad areas and prevent the crime before it occurs, eiciency. Rich people are able to exert the power in society. Machine has many parts and every part has a role to play: break down in one area can cause dysfuncion and disorder in the system as a whole. What is the role people play that contributes to the working society: funcion. Too litle to crime does not exist, too much is a problem.
