SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dysmenorrhea, Drug Czar, Erving Goffman

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

Document Summary

The bottom line: deviance reveals much about responsibility. 18th century hanging in london-one boy does right thing, one boy does the wrong thing, gets punished more and more. Executing conspirators in the plot to kill lincoln- no longer public. In 19th century, hangings to be conducted inside prisons. Emelie durkheim- argued that crime served a social function- drawing a boundary between a society"s members and those who broke the rules and stood outside society. Pop culture is fascinated with crime and other rulebreaking. Isn"t new: stories of the outlaw robin hood date to the 13th century. The beggar"s opera -an early 18th century play about crime and punishment. Crime is a central theme in entertainment and news. It tends to be concentrated in the poorest neighborhoods. Shootings in wilmington were clustered in different small areas. Robert k. merton-argued that crime was a product of society"s values and its social arragements. (see square diagram).