SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Moral Panic, Social Status, Devaluation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Linda Hunter

Document Summary

Best and luckenbill (1980) examines relationships among those labelled as deviant these take many forms: (1) number of members, (2) task specialization, (3) stratifica- tion within group , and (4) type of authority structure. Organized groups - providing greater resources to members, teach novices the skills. Loners the most solitary in interacting with others but keeping their attitudes behaviours or conditions secret this category includes self-injurers, anorexics, bulimics. Such websites provide several latent functions for participants: they transmit technical and ideological know-how they bring together persons into common discourse they are global. Cyber-communities provide a space for deviance to grow. Colleagues face-to-face relationships with others like themselves but do not need their cooperation to engage in activities this category includes the homeless, and con artists. Mutual association brings possibility of membership in a deviant subculture or counter- culture the individual gains social support from colleagues for deviance.