SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Subculture, Loan Shark, Volstead Act
10 May 2017
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Attachment- to conventional persons, friends or family, cares about these peoples opinions. Commitment- to conventional goals, to higher levels of education, employment, etc. Involvement- in conventional activities in hobbies, activities, extra curricular. Promotion- encourage these people to get into this. Empirical- if they"re involved in good things they"ll avoid problems. Criticisms: hasn"t been tested with results, not ideal controls. Criminal organization : de ned as a group, 3 or more people, engaging in crime. Bene t to one or several people of the group. Engage in activities that are lawful legit business which makes it dif cult to use law against them. Attempt to gain in uence in government and politics. In canada, every major ethnic group has been involved at one point and time. A lot of gangs here have connections in us and vice versa. Italian based ma a is most well known. Italian ma a made so much money during this time because they sold alcohol.
