SOCIOL 2CC3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Auguste Comte, Social Constructionism, Symbolic Interactionism
19 Feb 2020
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Sociological perspective deviance = product of individuals engaged in definitional processes / how individuals perceive, define and assert conditions to be deviant. Deviant careers social process of becoming a weed user. Social processes of developing a deviant identity. Construction of deviant bodies and deviant sexuality. Sociology of deviance anything that causes us to view another as outsider: violation of cultural norms, mores, laws, recognizes conceptions differ across time and place, broad concept (includes mundane non-conformity, transgression, contested. Assumption about the nature of the world. Auguste comte founder can study social life in same way natural or physical world studied: via scientific method, techniques of observation & comparative method, experimentation discover facts, create distinct typologies. Deviance real, tangible, material, measurable, obvious (exists objectively: definable, straightforward, unproblematic. Focus and concern: sociocultural conditions, environmental, and socialization. Individuals become bad due to external factors: biological/physiological & psychological, born bad due to genetic makeup, major q: why do people deviate, assumes conformity is the norm.
