01:920:222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Masculinity, Arson, Blue-Collar Worker

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: 01:920:222
• Professor: Professor Covington

Document Summary

Donald black & self-help: self-help explains why americans used crimes like assaults, homicides, arson & property destruction to resolve disputes, b/c criminal behavior as a s form of self-help was so widespread, it indicates most. Americans saw violence as a legit way to resolve disputes: hence, no need to identify violent people as members of separate violent subculture. Okay to leave the wow violence unraced. Richard nisbett & white violence in the american south: many of euro immigrants to us south in 1600s & 1700s had been herders in. Europe herders had been especially disputatious: disputatious euro herding cultures survived on us frontier and passed on intergenerational in us south. David courtwright & the impact of marital status on white violence: notes wm violence was common in places where young, unmarried wms congregated like the western frontier. Violence was a common way to settle disputes in these all male environments (ie cowboys) White violence has declined since the 19th century.