SOCY 275 Lecture Notes - Normal Distribution, Social Control, Ostracism

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

Document Summary

Sociology and political action take attempts towards social control, and use it against a certain group of people. Devia (latin)- there is a path that most of us are on, and there are people who depart from that path; making them deviant. For some people distinction between the deviant and the non-deviant is completely non-problematic. They would argue that some things are simply deviant in and of themselves. There are certain kinds of things that are innately deviant. The variability in what is and what is not deviant: from time to time; from place to place. When students are asked in a classroom to define deviance a first response is to list types of people or types of behaviours that they think deserve the label. However the problem of this is that we all have different criteria of what we consider deviant. There are disagreements with who are what are in and who and what are out.