SOC223 Lecture : the Deviant Mystique
Document Summary
Product of human activity: social construction of deviance and people"s involvements in aspects of deviance making process. Objective: develop theoretical statement on deviance informed by research that deals with people"s experiences and practices as they engage in worlds constituting human community. Framing the analysis: establish definitions of phenomena as deviant , become identified as deviances, become involved in deviance implicated activities and networks, sustain involvement in practices and life worlds, attempt to regulate deviance informally and through control agencies. Focus on matters of judging, directing and controlling people"s situations, behaviours, and experiences. Promote / invoke evaluative standpoints where deviance may be defined. Deny authenticity of human knowing and acting. Attempt to talk deviance out of existence: structuralists. Reduce everything to realm of words, concepts or ideas (anything can be anything) Explain deviance by virtue of interplay of internal and external factors thought to cause people to act in certain matters. Studying nonhuman essences or biophysical features of humans.