SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Dominant Culture, Shared Experience, Authoritarianism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3750
• Professor: Patrick Parnaby

Document Summary

Status (e. g. good hacker, bad hacker, fake, etc. ) Ambivalence (hostility towards dominant culture, but sympathy) Science and generic social processes (same behaviours from one subculture to the next) Transparency not all subcultures are benign, sometimes they are very important (e. g. police) Front line officers or the officers in charge and attempt to get. Norms and values their permissions: minimize social distance: the more you can learn, the better (relation, building rapport) Going native : don"t become too close to those who you study, may lose objectivity. Exiting: keep some ties so those being studied, do not feel exploited. Debate: presence of certain norms and values (loftus 2010: tendency to be authoritarian typically among the male cops. Males value law enforcement: station queens : cops that don"t go out anymore, but simply do paperwork, machismo/masculinity. Training and socialization: skolnick"s working personality (1966) Exposure to danger leads to authoritarianism: parables and story telling (ford 2003, van hulst.