SOC 2070 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Mci Inc., Shooting Of Amadou Diallo, Freddie Mac

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Norman Dubeski

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Madoff- committed the largest financial fraud ever carried out by a single individual > swindled his clients; charities, banks, schools and universities of. Individual deviance: corresponds to 2 of goffman"s famous trilogy: behaviour or conditions that indicate blemishes of individual character, physical traits that are considered abominations of the body. Individuals who act as embodiments of a particular organization and within an organization setting. The act can"t be performed without the actor"s location within the setting. The forms of deviance that entail actions whose setting is organizational and whose agency is organizational >cooperate crimes. Organizational deviance: stands outside goffman"s trilogy as they can only be enacted by people who have a particular position in a particular organization. Cover-ups are an important aspect of deviance process. The opportunity to engage in certain forms of deviance is structured according to occupational position > main reason they engage in deviance is that they are in a position to do so.