SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ascribed Status, Child Abuse, Outline Of Health Sciences
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4 things that are necessary for deviance to exist: 1. A rule or norm must exist: 2. Someone must violate/be thought to violate that norm: 3. An audience must be present someone who judges the violation to be wrong: 4. There must be a measurable likelihood of a negative reaction by the audience ex. Without the reaction, there is no deviance: the more numerous and detailed the rules, the more opportunities there are for normative violations. Almost any action, belief or characteristic we could think of is approved in some social circles and condemned in others. Societal and situational deviance: there are two sides to the judgements of deviance, 1. Vertical/hierarchical side says that people with more power get to say whats deviance: 2. Deviant behaviour: even if we actually do believe something, our behaviour is weighed more heavily than our beliefs, goffman typology of stigma/deviance, 1. Deviant beliefs: holding radical political views, rigid and treacherous beliefs.
