SOC379H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: White-Collar Crime, Blue-Collar Worker, Corporate Crime
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Lecture 11: thinking about organizational deviance instead of white collar crime, the challenger launch decisions, structural secrecy, normalization of deviance, baylor a case study, remember- have media anaylsis amnesty. 1: it seems to reinforce the idea that the working class is the more dangerous class. 2: thus it is not seen as dangerous, externalities: since it doesn"t affect the general public, they don"t think of it as their problem. Includes deviant and conforming behaviour: the biggest problem in od is conforming behavior and it creates these conditions, this is called routine non-conformity. Routine non-conformity: organizations have the seeds of their own destruction, capitalism, eg. It was estimated that making the change would result in a total of 180 less burn deaths, 180 less serious burn injuries, and 2,100 less burned vehicles: ,000/death, ,000/injury, and /vehicle equating to the total. 277: organizational segregation of knowledge, information will always be incomplete, there is a hierarchy of information.
