SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Truck Driver, Cultural Capital, Used Car
9 Sep 2016
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Delinquent behavior: where they could do their acts of delinquency. Saints: less visible in town because had cars and would leave town, stealing and moving around items that could cause accidents. Roughnecks: more visible in town, stealing in stores/shoplifting. Perception people have of them: teachers and police. Talk to teacher and get one person out at a time: use legitimate school activity. Do the saints and roughnecks experience social mobility: saints (as adults) 7 out of 8 nish college: 5 out of 7 nish college in four years. Didn"t really move in class (stayed in upper-middle class) Divorce/ family disruption: he moves down in class. Jack + herb: got football scholarships to college based on talent, as adults, they became high school teachers/coaches, moved up in social mobility (middle class) Others became : bookie (illegal gambling/sports gambling) Didn"t really move/moved down in social mobility: 2 convicted as murderers. Move down in social mobility or stayed the same: truck driver.
