SOCIOL 2CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Auguste Comte, Grandtheft, Norm (Social)
4 Feb 2020
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Anything that causes us to view another as outsider , other , or different . Involves the violation of norms, mores and laws ideas, beliefs, actions, embodiment that others find problematic, weird, strange, immoral, etc. Conceptions of deviance differ across time and place: also differ by degree & by context. Is a broad context includes mundane non-conformity e. g. tattoos, faking illness to skip a class formal rule breaking e. g. grand-theft auto. Is a contested concept: disagreements over what constitutes deviance, all defs of deviance based on series of assumptions: Human nature as essentially good" vs. essentially evil". Nature of social reality: objective vs. subjective, singular reality vs. multiple realities social order/harmony vs. social conflict/chaos, 2 major philosophical orientations in sociology. (i) positivist - absolutist, scientist, absolutist (ii) constructionist - relativist, humanistic, subjectivist, interpretivist. Are conflicting, antithetical orientations & understandings of the nature of social reality: developed by auguste comte - founder of positivism.
