SOC413 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Starbucks, Social Inequality
24 Dec 2015
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Monitoring of someone or groups of people. Recording of peoples actions and how it is used; good or bad. Facebook phototagging: is this you? , gps tracking on your phone iphones have codes in their system to track users on a map, could be used for marketing, police investigating if a suspect"s alibi was correct. Big brother = negative: the government is always watching you, don"t have individual thought. Surveillance is tired to social control (so how do we define that?) Formal written in law; firm rules, clear agents of social control. Informal stigma, social shaming: ie - speed limits; set by research by safety board, ie keeping honey packets behind the counter at. Starbucks; shaming if you get more than 2. Geographical pockets where cops are in conflictive inequality? relationship with the public. Maintained by those in power and political mechanisms: external sanctions, punishments or rewards, internalizations, socializations etc) Agents that are interlinked (school, family, media,
