Sociology 1021E Lecture Notes - Sweater Vest, Iced Tea, Playstation 3
1 Dec 2012
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Public protest mass arrest & detention, weaponization of police technological spread; twitter; phone cameras (the intrusion of technology) Police actions lead to public inquiry and civil liberties also helped by technology. Norm violations that evoke various sanctions: stigma, surveillance. Tied to gender/age/skin colour you don"t belong here social control: criminalization. Deviance and forms of social control are relative. Eating grapes in the grocery store is deviance. The response depends on the situation how violent was it, how strict is the context. This is a threshold point, a dividing line. Conformity: what is normal here is not normal in other places we don"t get in trouble. Deviance: norm violating behaviour this is not a crime. Criminality: codified law (getting life for b&e, but 14 years for aggravated sexual assault with a weapon. Rape of your spouse never used to be a crime. Opium used to be the equivalent to red wine today criminal due to relation to chinese labour.
