SOCY 275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Homicide, Scalability, Uniform Crime Reports

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 275
• Professor: Stephen Baron

Document Summary

Sociality- does the behavior typically involve two or more people in cooperation ex. A gang, member of an organized crime group, etc. Some deviance might be in the middle, ex. Pervasion- the amount of time and resources that a person is going to have to dedicate to the activity, the more time and energy involved the more pervasive the deviant is. Something"s require less (homicide) more would be things like gambling, bank robbing etc. Communication- frequency and effectiveness or debt of the communication, interested in developing a mutual understanding and the exchange of ideas, the more this is done the more coordinated the group can become ex. Deviant religious organizations require a lot of passing on of ideas. Differentiation and coordination- examining if there are any sort of hierarchy and is there coordination between the levels. Are there people who make the rules and then people who follow the rules. Not applicable for every type of deviance (ex.