SOCI 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jaywalking, Substance Abuse, Content Analysis
15 Jan 2016
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A scientist might have a diff definition than a clergy would. Content analysis - documents as a topic of research. It"s not clear what belongs and what doesn"t o o. Solution - collapse list into more general categories. Cannot include suicide because some are more intense than others. Can attempt to define deviance instead of classifying it. Any attempt to "classify" will result in a virtually endless list. Defining a concept is more appropriate as the definition can comprise many examples. 5 definitions of deviance: statistical definition o o. Deviance = any behaviour or condition that represents a departure from majority and/or average experience. Majority and/or average experience = essential tendency (statistic that defines a sample or population in some global way) Most people determine deviance according to what "ought" to be, not what "is" Deviance = any aberration from a given, "absolute" set of standards of conduct. Such as standards imposed by religious or psychiatric authority.
