The Normality Of Crime Durkheim Summary

Article 25, by Emile Durkheim “The Normality of crime” This article an expert from Emile Durkheim’s 1895 essay rules of the Sociological method it is focused on how it is in an inevitable for at least some members in society to misbehave against that society’s values or beliefs (Durkheim, 2014). He believed the only true way to completely eliminate murder from society would to make every member from society respect each other. In turn this would cause the lighter acts of crime or mischief seem much larger. He summed that thought up in a quote “in society of saints, he says, the crime of murder would not be a problem, but perhaps the “crime” of insulting others would be.”(Durkheim 2014 p. 263) The article goes on to talk about how crime is

Whereas a majority of the African American community still feel that racial discrimination and prejudice is a large problem that they face on a daily basis. The chapter states whites don’t feel their racist because others are more racist then they are (Feagin, 2014). Racism varies in degrees. He says the whites that don’t disagree with segregation do have prejudice feeling against changes in legislation. Feagin say legislators are trying to maintain white privilege and position, and that a large amount of whites are against affirmative action because they feel they get passed over for opportunities and lose their jobs to less qualified blacks, just because of their color. Whites feel that there is anti-white discrimination and affirmative action legalizes it. Many whites feel that the blacks should get passed their resentments already, like the Irish and the Italians did. They feel if they don’t thrive than it is their own fault (Feagin, 2014). Feagin then states whites and the media always view white characters as being superior or the hero of the story even in mostly black films. He states that a majority of the racism occurs because of people no standing up against it. Feagin talks about racism falling into three categories (groups). The first group is overtly resist, the second is more subtle

G. Kelley where he talks about stereotypes. He starts out talking about how people seem to back down or are more likely to give him his way at places due to the mean tough black man stereotype. He then talks about his youth where he was raised in California by a hard working single mom. He followed Media’s expectations of what a black boy should be by doing by his choices in clothing, drinking, doing drugs such as marijuana, listening to rap music (Kelley, 2014). He was far from this stereotype though he was very nice and soft spoken who had trouble even cursing. He was well liked by all and because of this, the bad crowd liked him too. He never fought with any one and wasn’t lucky when it came to girls because he was too nice. He talks about how violent hyper-masculinity is a stereotype just as much as the happy sambo (Kelley, 2014). He claims that fear of black men is often to do with size, shape, and color anatomically. But, this is irrational and most black men are not what is portrayed on the media. He then talks about once he finished his education, got married, and had kids. This changed his image in society, they became everyone’s favorite “negroes” as he called it (Kelley, 2014). He was viewed as non-threating and every one ask him all racial issue they had. He wanted the image of the bad black man to stop all the insensitive questions, but never could achieve it until, by accident, he shaved his hair to low which revealed a bald