Activity 10!

                     When I hear the words “drug dealer” I picture the same thing as many others do within our society. I picture someone who is of color, young, poor and from a city or very urban area with a lack of proper education or opportunities to succeed. People who are surrounded by negativity peers, family and parents who had experienced the same issues when growing up. Dorm Room Dealers takes on another perspective, which broaden my view drastically. The two sociologists, Mohamed and Fritsvold formed ethnography on a private college in San Diego. They spent a total of six years interviewing and observing them as they partied, used illegal drugs, traded pills and too part in other illegal activities, which are completely unexpected from them. These books focuses on how these individuals, the wealthy or of no color were able to get away with dealing drugs and committing all these crimes. Even when the police caught them, they are able to convince the police to let them go with money.  For example, one student got too wasted and attacked a car. There was pot and evidence of drug dealing involved. However, the police officer was convinced by that student to drive him home and took a hundred dollars in return. This book discussed the lack of consequences these “good people” receive from dealing drugs. The researchers were able to provide the reader with a new perspective on who drug dealers can be and that the stereotypes placed on the typical drug dealer doesn’t really exist. The unexpected are likely to deal, smoke and drink underage, not just the poor and colored individuals in urban areas.