SOCI 30323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Kerchief
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Common cultural universe creates social cohesion/social glue that holds us together. Acts as a form of social control. Crime/deviance lacks culture and therefor has failed socialization into culture. Criminals only seen as deviant (in or out: culture: creativity, difference, social changes, new meanings, symbols. Sub-cultures: meanings and symbols; underneath, out of sight. Counter culture: a culture that works in direct opposition to main culture. Views differences as in one culture or in another culture. Subcultures (alt. view: engage in meaningful actions/rituals/styles/symbols. : gutter punks/fright hoppers/train hoppers wear bandana colors to express experience/trust/clean air: subcultures can be thought of as collective solutions to shared problems. Al cohen (1955): first careful study of delinquency. Negativistic breakdown in school, these boys shared problem: evaluated by the (cid:498)middle class measuring rod(cid:499) subculture invert the measuring rod (intentionally speak slang) subculture wins by changing terms and being their own group rather than easily understood.
