SOC 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: White Supremacy, Differential Association, Netflix
Social contest → Crips and Bloods (producing gangs)
- Responding to social factors
WHY? Would they engage in gangs and deviance??
Time - 1940s ->> present day
Location - LA, urban, economics, NOT in the south
Culture - values, white supremacy (LAPD), racism/discrimination
Language - black are inferior
“There doesn’t have to be laws to have segregation”
**housing segregation
Sundown Towns - black people know not to go to white neighborhoods
Social institutions : differential association - learned things and actions (imitation) from
gangs, fights, drugs
Cloward/Ohlino
- Conflict subcultures
- Disorganized communities where conflict occurs
- Watts 1965 → BIG fight
- Industrialization - factories closes
+ NOT recognized as communities
+ No one really needs
Intensity - respect and admiration for elders → this is what a man is
● One child had to hide drugs when police came
Merton - cultural goal, cultural means, innovative means (drug dealing 1980s - crack)
Until Obama, crack = 1, cocaine = 100x
Family, Economy, Government, politics, law, media
“It’s always been okay for the government to use violence, but it’s not okay for black
people”
* removal of black figures (MLK) strain theory ((taken away))
Looking Glass Self
- Spoonful of hatred
Document Summary
Social contest crips and bloods (producing gangs) Location - la, urban, economics, not in the south. There doesn"t have to be laws to have segregation . Sundown towns - black people know not to go to white neighborhoods. Social institutions : differential association - learned things and actions (imitation) from gangs, fights, drugs. Intensity - respect and admiration for elders this is what a man is. One child had to hide drugs when police came. Merton - cultural goal, cultural means, innovative means (drug dealing 1980s - crack) Until obama, crack = 1, cocaine = 100x. It"s always been okay for the government to use violence, but it"s not okay for black people . * removal of black figures (mlk) strain theory ((taken away)) Zones = model by ernest burgess (1923) Gentrification - areas that were industrialized most white people are these. Other layer, heterogeneity, immigrants suburbs and rural areas away from everyone.