CRIM 3652 Study Guide - Final Guide: Erving Goffman, Police Corruption, Potemkin Village
12 Dec 2016
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Definition of boredom: boredom is a lack of interest or engagement and sense of. Boredom can create opportunities for imagination to come alive. Since boredom creates opportunities for cops imaginations to come alive, they are always searching for the possibilities of something exciting. Example: street crime detectives are tasked with hunting for illegal weapons, criminals with active warrants and narcotic raids. They have learned to control their boredom by finding leisure in their work day, this includes: job endurance making boredom bearable by having conversations, games and humor. A fundamentally negative subjective state where the individual experiences little interest in what is currently happening. Traditionally, the concept is thought of as a toxic affect. Something being considered too easy and therefore tedious, something too puzzling and therefore irritating. Certain people or activities can trigger boredom, ex, you dislike the activity or the person, unwillingness induced by an environment, fatigue brought on by dullness or exhaustion in one"s patience.
