SOC 2070 Lecture 2: Week 2 Readings.docx
2 Mar 2013
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Erikson asserts that deviance and the social reaction it evokes are key focal concerns of every community. Erikson suggest several valuable functions that deviance performs: people know what is acceptable and unacceptable, bolsters cohesion, integration and solidarity (which preserves the stability of social life) Confrontations between deviant offenders and the agents of control have always attracted a good deal of public attention. Deviant behaviour is not a simple kind of leakage which occurs when the machinery of society is in poor working order, but may be, in controlled quantities, an important condition for preserving the stability of social life. Chapter 2: an integrated typology of deviance applied to 10 middle-class. A typology of deviance integrating normative and reactivist. Appling the integrated normative-reactivist typology to middle-class. Negative deviance is under-conformity or non-conformity that is negatively evaluated. Eg. as privacy is critical, the intrusion through theft or rape is deviant.
