SOC 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Poverty Trap, Marxism, Reaction Formation
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Outline: theorizing deviance, functionalist theories, learning theories, social control theories. Theorizing deviance: early 20th century: biological theories of crime, mid 20th century: social theories of deviance. Objective-subjective continuum: positive theories: those with more objective interests: study deviant person, behaviour, or characteristics. Interpretive & critical theories: study perceptions of and reactions to the act. Sociological approaches to crime: functionalism, conflict, symbolic interactionism, feminism. Theories: durkhei(cid:373)"s anomie theory: too much social change leads to deviance: (father of sociology, a certain level of deviance is functional for society, optimistic about what function deviance served in society in the bigger picture: Increases social solidarity: tests so(cid:272)iet(cid:455)"s (cid:271)ou(cid:374)da(cid:396)ies, determines moral boundaries, reduces societal tensions, too much social change, beyond a certain level deviance becomes dysfunctional, structure of society creates deviance, mechanical solidarity organic solidarity -society is always ready for change. More complex, diverse components: rapid social change creates anomie (normlessness, lacking stability, feeling of security & order)- change should take a slow pace.