Exam #3 will cover Chapter 9 of the textbook and all of the ethnography, Danger, Duty, and Disillusion: The Worldview of Los Angeles Police Officers. Most, if not all, of the exam questions will be in multiple choice format, and I will probably draw from some of your quiz questions. I will also draw from lectures as well as the film, The Ax Fight.

Terms and concepts to know (as they relate to assigned readings and lectures):

community power authority

band tribe headmen

big men sodality chiefdom

nation state egalitarian society rank society

stratified society stratified state societies social stratification

class caste social control

deviance law TA.s

I.O.D. rites of passage “pull the pin”

sandbagging “wuss” cop bars

options (strategies) for police officers trying to remain on the job

getting off the streets Sam Browne extended family

“to be beefed” vox dire styles of policing

hard charging jacket “Tupperware police”

“duce” “choking out” watch

motors foot patrol car patrol

Below is a brief outline that may help you organize your notes:

I. Political Order, Disorder, and Social Control: Who Decides?

A. Politics  

B. Power and Authority- Who has the Power? 

C. Forms of Political Organization and Leadership  

1.Band Societies 

2. Tribal Societies  

3. Chiefdom Societies  

4. State Societies  

5. Rank and Stratification  

D. Disorder and Social Control  

1. Informal Means of Social Control  

2. Formal Means of Social Control  

E. External Relations: War and Peace  

F. Examples: The Yanomamo, the Kpelle moot

II. Sample Ethnography: Los Angeles Police Officers

A. Barker’s Methodology

B. Traditional and New Police

C. The Worldview of Police Officers

D. Hitting the Streets, Hitting their stride, Hitting the Wall, Regrouping

E. Retirement

F. Reflections of a police officer (Fred)