SA 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Labeling Theory, Racial Profiling, Social Inequality

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Ann Travers

Document Summary

Cri(cid:373)e: (cid:448)iolatio(cid:374) of so(cid:272)iety"s for(cid:373)ally e(cid:374)a(cid:272)ted (cid:272)ri(cid:373)i(cid:374)al la(cid:449: crime is deviant but not all deviance is crime, deviance can be just annoying, stupid, disgusting, or frustrating. E. g. talking while prof is lecturing is deviant but not criminal. Not just behavior, but moral judgement by society. Cessare lombroso: physical deviance (body and skull types) can determine whether someone will be criminal. Most deviant acts are actually committed by people who are physically normal. Tendency to assume the norms of our society is normal: right and wrong, morals, what is deviant in one society can be considered normal in another society, deviance varies with cultural norms. Cultural universals no one act acknowledged as universally deviant: deviance is in the eye of the beholder, e. g. Kkk is now considered deviant, but it was once a deviance to not be a member of kkk: e. g.