SOCI 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stanley Pons, National Association Of Scholars, Control Theory
20 Jan 2018
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Example: does marijuana use always cause harm to others: if the term crime is problematic because it is narrow, the term deviance has also caused problems, because it is broad. Like the concept of crime, it varies across time and place, and it is subjective. Deviance also depends upon people"s definitions of situations: although these may seem to be purely abstract, academic questions, they have practical ramifications. Confusion and diversity: the sociology of deviance is not a coherent discipline. It is common subject, but there is not a common approach: some marxist perceive deviance as liberating acts of rebellion against capitalism; conformity as collusion. 2: ontology: claims about what is the nature of social reality (is abstract, is the study of emotions or reality or interpretations) Conclusions: there are many different definitions of crime and deviance, these variations are not necessary problematic, differences exists, in part, because of ontological and epistemological assumptions.
