SOCB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Aggressive Panhandling, Timothy Leary, Squeegee
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The best laid plans of mice and men, often go awry . Tutorial: icebreaker, experiential learning assignment, what is the most surprising thing you"ve learned in the course so far, read the news drake. Suggested that crime and deviance are necessary for a well- functioning and healthy society. Would never be able to historically or globally find a society that has zero crime. Must mean that we need it in society it probably serves a function and purpose in society. Societies need to be able to see transgressions of moral codes or behaviours that violate moral boundaries, otherwise they would forget what they even are. Crime and deviance serve to protect anomie. American dream: if you work hard, you will succeed. American dream is not very achievable and realistic: wrote in the 1930"s during the great depression. Conformity: when there is little strain that exists between goals and the means to achieve those goals: establishment of new means and goals.
