POL310Y5 Lecture 1: SOC310 Lecture 1 September 12
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Submit first draft of proposal for peer review: due october 3, peer review due october. The public issue: youth crime has generated considerable public concern and discussion, news accounts help to fuel these concerns, violence is discussed in media accounts as indicative of all youth crime. Muncie: broad trends, globalized neo-liberal processes of responsibilization and risk management coupled with traditional neo-conservative authoritarian strategies have dominated the political landscape. However, they also have to work alongside or within new" conceptions of social inclusion, partnership, restoration and moralization . Neoliberalism definition is a social, political, and economic regulatory system characterized by policies and programs around security, privatization and risk" ( p. 33) Assumes that citizens need to become more responsible and governments need to reduce the size and cost of their operations. Governing that is distinct from welfarism/welfare state. Responsibilization: non-state actors taking being made responsible or being asked to participate in traditional state mandates.
