SOC446H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Blue-Collar Worker
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Chapter 7: conclusion; fiddling a subculture of business. Chapter 7 normatively locates fiddling as a subterranean subculture of business" itself and concludes with an examination of the type of deviance that part-time" crimes represent. Fiddling is a subculture; one developed as a reaction to wider societal values. The customs of fiddling are balanced between legitimate and criminal activity. Fiddling supports the same norms and other businesses. Fiddling, like selling, epitomises the capitalist spirit": supports capitalism. The continued existence of the subculture is facilitated and perhaps even dependent upon support and reinforcement from conventional sources". the fiddler can interpret some cultural support through simply interpreting and situating the law. Neutralisations are ready made, processed, and delivered through the channels of symbolic communication the fiddler believes that, just because the values of business may be attached to the practices of crime, this is enough in itself. Fiddlers usually only tell their wives or other close family.
