SOC208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Embeddedness, Anomie, Social Order
Document Summary
Cultural theories - organized crime stems from culture. Intimate interaction with criminal others (micro) produce crime. Views favourable to crime sympathetic, status - if they hold these views yours will be as well. Participating in crime bc there"s no other option. Poverty, mobility, lack social control, lack social resources, education, opportunity, single parent households. Organized crime groups emerge to fill the gaps. Disjunction between culturally proscribed goals and available means. Adaptation through innovation (accepting the goals and not the means) Market dynamic and demand for goods/services (fulfilling what we want) Social units and systems which perform major relevant social functions. Align with legitimate business for concealment, laundering, reportable legit income. Capitalized on the void in the legal market. Opportunity, employment, retirement, housing, legitimate economic investment, needs. Underlying social relations that enable or facilitate criminal networks by providing a common basis of trust. The social environment in which organized criminals find themselves. Embedded in local culture and wider corporate culture.
