SA 150 Lecture Notes - Differential Association, Racial Profiling, Juvenile Delinquency

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Amie Mc Lean

Document Summary

Sneetches-- allegory to the stars that the jewish used to wear. Sociological grounded rational and demonstrate the sociological perspective. Need to cite and reference pictures, content etc don"t have to include in text citations in the story book. Important to distinguish btwn deviance and crime outside the bounds of what is normal. Range of behaviour from annoying, threatening, dangerous or disgusting certain situations. Crime: violation of society"s formally enacted criminal law. Something considered deviant but not criminal chewing gum in. Lombroso argued that this is used to predict whether people would take part o. Believed he could predict deviance based on body and skull types --> Most acts considered to be deviant are committed by people who are seen as but his ideas have been strongly disproven biologically normal. The social foundations of deviance not be in another rights, taboos against incest, marriage etc) Assume that the norms of our society are normal and natural.