SOCI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Labeling Theory, Stanford Prison Experiment
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**take chapter 6 quiz before 9/29, chapter 5 for extra credit. Deviance: behavior that is recognized as violating expected rules and norms. Deviance is relative and changes over time. How is deviance socially constructed: emerges in a social context, social norms and rules that we have are socially created. Conflicted as to how the germans could slaughter so many jews: how were nazi generals able to go home and be wonderful providers while during the day, they contribute to genocide. Experimenter sits in room with teacher in front of shock machine. Victim sits in another room, unseen if victim makes mistake, instructed teacher to deliver shock can hear screams from other room teacher pressured to continue delivering shocks with no apparent other choice clearly uncomfortable continued because they weren"t responsible. Foucault and panopticon: changed from society based on punishment to society based on discipline, charts this through architechtual phenomenon called panopticon.
