LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Symbolic Interactionism, Multiracial, Subjectivism
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Othering disassociating one group of individuals from another. How do you truly know someone: people fall into a routine and sense of comfort when with people for a long time, often forgetting that relationships require constant work and maintenance. 1883 missouri supreme court case of inter-racial unions and producing children. Alabama supreme court case 1881: claim of harm to society. Miscegenation interracial intimate relations; the us for a long time had a lot of anti- miscegenation laws which were very strong and hard-core. Which dichotomy is commonly used to discussed different perspectives on the definition of deviance: ethical/unethical, theoretical/practical, universal/particular, objective/subjective. When harm is used as a criteria to determine deviance, what are the four different types of harms bereska outlines: physical, emotional, harm to society, harm to one"s world view. Can you think of another type of harm that could be an indicator of deviance: self harm, financial, spiritual.
