SOC 3312 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Edwin Sutherland, Profit Maximization, Identity Theft

• School: University of Houston
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3312
• Professor: Sharla Colbert

Document Summary

Introduction: privileged deviance: highly profitable deviance that typically occurs among the relatively rich and powerful. Introduced by edwin sutherland in 1939: related to a white-collar occupation (e. g. , not murder, adultery, etc. , deviant is a relatively respectably, high-status person. Involves how the act is executed: skill, sophistication, resources of power, influence, able to avoid detection or conviction. If blue collars try to commit the same act, they do not and cannot do it in the same way. Corporate deviance: corporate deviance shows that explaining deviance in psychological terms is absurd, companies do not have inferiority complexes or personality deficits, carried out by executives for their companies" benefits. Unsafe products: unsafe cars and parts, tobacco companies know smoking causes cancer, but they still make and sell cigarettes, product safety violations in pharmaceuticals: Impure, over-strength, out-of-date, or nonsterile products: fraudulent safety testing of drugs, withholding data from the fda about a drug"s negative side effects, consumers used as guinea pigs.