SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Participant Observation, Agnosticism, Norm (Social)
16 May 2012
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Lecture notes #3 norms - established rules de ning correct/proper behaviour; speci c, clear: you know when you broke one. Re ect of what society values at the time; therefore, norms can change. Couples living together before marriage was unheard of; now its normal to do so deviance - any behaviour that breaks a social norm. How strongly the norm is valued decides how deviant it is. Once labelled deviant be portrayed as dangerous and be socially isolated. At one time, tattoos, piercings, agnostic would be deviant behaviour agency - empowers your social practices. Classroom; 20 reasonable rules agency: you have the free will to choose all 20 of those. *free will within social rules structure - setting the walls/foundation to society. Professor and student have social structures but when i leave class, not the same structures as in the classroom. Theory - explains answer, hypothesis emerges from the application of theory to data.
