SOSC 1930 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Capital, Unitedhealth Group, Neighbourhood Watch (United Kingdom)

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1930
• Professor: Yuka Nakamura

Document Summary

Ed snowden: worked for nsa and revealed various ways government uses technologies to survey everyone. (phone, computer, etc. ) Jeremy bentham: how do the guards survey prisoners (panopticon) Richard nixon: faced impeachment because of wiring rivals and surveying them. Michel foucault: wrote book on prison system and variety of forms of surveillance. The wire: wiretapping, premise of show is officers keep track of enemies by hearing from a judge to wiretap a group. Surveillance timeless resource of collective life: integral to safety, security and social order, jane jacobs eyes on the street . If the city has a public life (hospitable, enjoyable: examples of everyday surveillance practices that are common knowledge. Same behaviour read differently based on skin colour. Many argue this is what makes possible preventative policing vs reactive policing: saying that blacks are a criminal population. Whites are stopped more than blacks: 1 arrest for every 9. 5 blacks, 1 arrest for every 7. 9 whites.