SOC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Erving Goffman, Moral Panic, Social Constructionism

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC101
• Professor: patrick lalonde

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Lecture 7 crime & deviance part 1. What is deviance: deviance is fluid and socially constructed, deviance straying from the norm or the usual, deviance is constructed by how (cid:449)e defi(cid:374)e (cid:862)the (cid:374)o(cid:396)(cid:373)(cid:863). Hard to say: deviance is also about who defi(cid:374)es (cid:862)the (cid:374)o(cid:396)(cid:373)(cid:863), no objectivity to normal. Stigma: notes on the management of spoiled identity. Stigma a hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) att(cid:396)i(cid:271)ute that is see(cid:374) to dis(cid:272)(cid:396)edit a(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s so(cid:272)ial ide(cid:374)tit(cid:455): bodily physical abnormalities such as a scar, moral blemishes of individual character such as mental illness, tribal race, religion, citizenship, etc. 9/11: to be racialized to be assumed to be deviant, e. g. women in burqa may stress white people, racial profiling, carding randomly questioning someone and asking for id. Criminal deviance theories: strain theory robert k. merton 1938, tried to explain why people choose to be criminally deviant. Strain disconnect between culturally defined goals and means of achieving them.