SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Carrie Nation, Erving Goffman, Opium Den

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: JOEL BEST

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The bottom line: deviance reveals much about respectability. 18th century hanging in london (two boys: one is diligent, hard-working, successful, the other is lazy, not successful, commits crime of murder, sentenced to death) Painting of the boy being sent to the gallows. London didn"t have a lot of things going on, so people loved going to watch people get hanged. Executing conspirators in the plot to kill lincoln no longer public (four people were convicted and group-hanged in front of assembled soldiers) In the nineteenth century, hangings began to be conducted inside prisons. The modern execution is a medical procedure (most states gave up hanging and electrocution, gas chambers, now they are lethal injections) Lethal injections have select people looking at it. Emilie durkheim (1858-1917) argued that crime served a social function drawing a boundary between a society"s members (who shared a social order) and those who broke the rules and stood outside society.