SOCIOL 2QQ3 Lecture Notes - Cold Turkey, Methamphetamine, Ideal Type
Document Summary
Deviant careers - organisation of & becker & mj. Textbook readings: (i)becker becoming a marijuana us. (i) ind"s entry into a deviant career: how enter via influence of friends, family, other. (ii) process of becoming deviant inds" motivations/reasons to engage in deviance in face of punishment, penalty & stigma labelling exp as deviant by others formation of a deviant id shift from primary to secondary deviance. (iii) early stages of specific deviant careers: processes involved generic or specific, shifts w/in deviant org, roles & responsibilities taken on. (iv) exiting a deviant career: process of leaving - phasing out, aging out, quit cold turkey. Almost no research on the mid-career exp: 2 major foci w/in literature on deviant career: (i) developing theories of how deviant careers are organized: e. g. highly structured or ad hoc/informal. (ii) typifying the character of the deviant career exp: e. g. identifying processes or stages involved (i)organization of deviant careers, organization of deviant careers.
