SOC326H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Police Misconduct, Private Police, Symbolic Power

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Lecture 7: occupational culture: talk about occupational culture, some of the nuances, and trends over time in terms of police culture. Classic studies of police culture point to: mission-action, hypermasculinity, solidarity, conservative, pessimistic. Officers work crime more than civil services, a mission-based job rather than a career. Assumptions of isolation, constant suspicion, more conservative institution. Views crime individualistically (acts of aggression) vs. holistically (cause and effect of external variables) In field studies: officers saw themselves as crime fighters who prevented the spread of trouble. Civil and domestic work is more predominant than just fighting crime: operation door-to-door and other social service programs. However, service approaches are discouraged unless if the officer meets an invisible hyper masculine characteristic. Officer" isolation from society = solidarity = task deviance while on the job (running personal errands, police misconduct; solidarity shown by other officers vouching for or covering up for each other) Persistence of values, norms, and orientations signifies the endurance of police culture.

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