SOCIOL 2C06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Abortion-Rights Movements, Social Constructionism, Sex And The Law
29 Mar 2016
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Labeling theorists interested in: how labels get applied, consequences. Social construcionists interested in: where labels come from in the irst place, how they acquire the meaning they do (good/bad; deviant/non deviant; moral/immoral, how these meanings change. The social construcion of deviance: objecive behaviour not deviant deiniional shit deviant, objecive behaviour deviant deiniional shit not deviant, behaviour is ixed it is the same behaviour. Ex: smoking a joint is the same now as it was 50 years ago. Someimes the act of making the claim will form a counter group. Ex: aborion rights movement in the 1960s group claim there shouldn"t be all these restricions; the emergence and growing strength of the aborion rights forced the pro-life movement to come together. What"s at the heart of sc understanding how those shits happen. The process by which meanings come to be atached to certain behaviours. Breaking that down further, you are asking who is behind the deiniional shit.
