SOCI 2445 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Arthur Conan Doyle, Karla Homolka, Paul Bernardo
18 Feb 2017
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Power, affluence, and influence make deviating from norms/laws easier . Capitalist system assumptions about deviance; rich people don"t worry about what people say/think about you, break rules (e. g. rob ford) Issues going before supreme court (e. g. abortion/euthanasia) changes fabric of society (not politicians) Police need probable cause to charge someone. According to scc, every person is equal before the law. **the degree to which an act will be treated as deviant depends on who commits the act & who feels they"ve been harmed by it. Those w/ mental illnesses are more prone to act differently in situations where police might get involved. No definitive definition of deviant behavior definitions & social responses to deviance vary throughout history (e. g. exotic dancing) Demonological deviance: people labelled as witches/sorcerers if they had non-conforming ideas, e. g. Physiological defect: disability = deviant: predicting deviance based on facial features phrenology, franz joseph gall, e. g. The hound of the baskervilles, arthur conan doyle compliments sherlock"s skull.
