SOC 2109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Harold Garfinkel, Labeling Theory, Ethnomethodology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2109
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Deviance is not a behaviour but how we respond to the behaviour. Moral entrepreneurs work to have their ideas about deviance enshrined in law : drinking and driving. Laws are differentially enforced, based on social status and social distance. If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences. When a person of power applies a label on you the label tends to stick. Reassesses past behaviour in light of deviant status. Focuses on social interaction and reactions, not just individual pathology. Law enforcement is based on behaviour, not prejudice. Crime is based on personal and situational factors, not self-image or labels. Ethnomethodology: an examination of methods people commonly use to sustain some kind of consensus of the world and to solve problems characterized by highly irrational features. Jack katz (1988) seductions of crime: the superior morality of the deviant. Richard quinney the social reality of crime (1970) The definitions are based on the interests of the powerful.