SOCIOL 2CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Somatotype And Constitutional Psychology, Karla Homolka, Grandtheft
8 Mar 2019
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Anything that causes us to view another as an "outside", "other", or "different" Involves the violation of cultural norms, mores/laws. Ideas, beliefs, actions, embodiment that others nd problematic/weird/strange/wrong. Includes mundane non-conformity - e. g. tattoo, piercing. Formal rule breaking - e. g. grand-theft auto, murder. De nitions of deviance differ across time and place. Differs by degree and by context - e. g. masturbation. Number of sociological (and other) perspectives of deviance. What is normal/moral vs. what is pathological/deviant. Objective (real deviance) vs. subjective (interpreted/in the eye of the beholder) - actual vs. interpretive. There is always something that can challenge something we may consider deviant. (i) positivist - absolutist, scienti c, objectivist, factual. (ii) constructionist - relativist, humanistic, subjectivist, interpretivist. We can"t experience the world in raw form we make it meaningful and we can give it meaning as well. Con icting, antithetical orientations two approaches are con icting: positivist sociological approaches to deviance. Developed by auguste comte - founder of positivism.
