CRIM 3655 Lecture Notes - Thorsten Sellin, Ethnic Nationalism, Informal Social Control
13 Dec 2013
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2500 words : 6-8 pages : margins 2. 5cm left/right, 2. 5cm top, 3cm bottom. There is a problem with police subculture, it is used often in a kind of intellectually lazy way, it is shorthand for police racism, police brutality, police sexism, bad things that police do. Every time we want to say something negatively about police, we talk about police subculture. What we want to do is make sure our concept of police subculture does analytical work. From a cultural analysis point of view, that object of material culture, has meaning and it effects the meaning of all the other ideas within that culture. Under postmodern conditions or in a world that"s gone global, can we really speak of a social system, a society, a social culture singular: a lot of people find that concept of postmodernism a difficult one. Supposedly there was a modern time where knowledge was singular, values were universal.
