SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Proletariat, Structural Functionalism, Mark Cuban

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Jayne Baker

Document Summary

Bill and melinda gates giving their money to charity. Breaking norms of saving money for generations. Guy in an elevator, tries to break his individuality and turns toward the wall (follows the norm) People have changed positions (group pressure), take off their hats. Deviance - norm breaking that evokes a negative reaction from others. Sociologists when looking at deviance and crime look at behaviors, social context. Social response that act evokes from people reaction. Definitions of crime and deviance depend on the context (historical, location) Historically banned because of racism and economic problems (job scarcity - white people feared that non-white people would take over their jobs) By banning marijuana, would cut the competition as the. Addicts become immune to pain, can use savage ways (written in 1920) Racist overtone (as they stated that the dealers were out to take over from white individuals.