SOCB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Drug Culture, Crack Cocaine, Tupac Shakur
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Manhood and exerting control: control in a relationship, resistance of oppression, in city highly pervasive. Contextualize in the way manhood looks in the society. Nerve in inner city: provide for loved ones, but maintains rep. Heart and nerve respect among surrounding areas. Interpersonal violence, physical domination -> how to gain respect. Nerve also invites retaliation: sleeping with another persons woman, inciting violence to family and self. Perpetrators of crime tend to have same static features as victims of crime: puts yourself at risk, black, men, poor . Instead of war on poverty, they got a. Addicts: crack cocaine addict rather than anything else, some people make it out of the inner city. Makes it look like it"s the fault of the people of the inner city. They are not taking there chances what they think: illegitimate economy, response to living in poor situation, looking at drug culture. Poor people: poverty mediate that response to that poverty.
