SA 210 Lecture 2: Week 2

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 210
• Professor: Robert Menzies

Document Summary

Normal" and deviant" mainstream perspecives assume that the division between the normal" and the deviant" is based on real diferences that can be scieniically ideniied and treated by experts and professionals. The mentally ill" can be separated from the sane; the criminal from the non-criminal; the good" family from the bad, etc. Normalizaion is a technocraic technique that involves the value-neutral applicaion of experise criical perspecives assume that the division between normal" and abnormal" is socially constructed by authorized knowers (experts and professionals) who have the power to do so. There is a subjecive dimension to the labeling of individuals and groups as good" or bad". Normalizaion is a poliical process that involves the applicaion of value-laden experise 2. Private and public mainstream perspecives assume that the private/public divide is real and both the private" and non-deviant public" should be unregulated or minimally regulated.