SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Visible Minority, Working Poor, Social Class

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Patrick Parnaby

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Help each other, share information, protect the tunnels it is not uncommon to post fellow tunnel dwellers as guards for the tunnel. Subcultures: north american sociology argot: argot vs. jargon. Jargon, is highly specialized language specific to one group, the members of the groups go out of their way to teach people this language. Argot is highly specific language to one group but for secrecy, not taught to others: fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s of argot . Joh(cid:374)so(cid:374) et al. (cid:894)2006(cid:895) (cid:862)(cid:373)ajrijua(cid:374)a argot as su(cid:271)(cid:272)ulture threads(cid:863) Secrecy, the argot forms of generations, they want to communicate effectively without getting caught (marijuana boom, broccoli, spinach, charms, buds, kale, trees) E(cid:272)re(cid:272)y a(cid:374)d s(cid:272)ree(cid:374)i(cid:374)g, if you do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) that argot a(cid:374)d tryi(cid:374)g to get i(cid:374)to the subculture you wont be able to get in. Expressiveness, a whole host of different words for the group to express themselves about the drug (baked, crunked, blazed, lifted etc. ) Communication, different and effiecient method of communicating.