SOCPSY 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Harold Garfinkel, Ethnomethodology, Labeling Theory

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 2YY3
• Professor: Kathleen Steeves

Document Summary

I want to date = breaking norms of the pattern (small deviance: penalties may ensue for larger breaks with social convention, 2 theories, ethnomethodology, labeling theory. Si: ethnomethodology: harold garfinkel, emphasizes how ind construct and defend their views on social reality (188) Indexicality: people tend to index thoughts, feelings, and behaviors from their own perspectives. Ssp perspectives on deviance: anomie and strain theory, social and self-control theories, crime and deviant are not just ind choice it is made in social contexts, certain limitations put on us. Innovators want the goal but don"t have the means of getting it: want a nice car but steal or cheat on taxes, ritualists - don"t agree with the goals of society. People who are on the fringes of society: homeless people, travelers, people who don"t agree with norms or goals in society and not trying to get there, rebels reject goals and means. Actively opposing the goals, protesting or working against the goals.