SOCI 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Conflict Theories, Cesare Beccaria, Informal Social Control
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Who defines deviance & a brief history of criminology: different approaches to defining what is deviant, statistical. If everyone does it can we say its deviant. Focuses on prevalence of behaviour and determines what is normative. Numeric perspective ie. how often it occurs. What if its 50-50 how do you decide. A lot of deviance is hidden- do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t other people to k(cid:374)o(cid:449) a(cid:271)out it. Thus its hard to get statistical reading of it. So(cid:373)e people do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to (cid:272)o(cid:374)de(cid:373) (cid:272)ertai(cid:374) (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour because they engage in deviant behaviours. Regardless of (cid:449)hat (cid:455)ou do there are so(cid:373)e (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iours that should(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e right. Eas(cid:455) appli(cid:272)atio(cid:374) (cid:271)ut does(cid:374)"t deal (cid:449)ith ho(cid:449) people feel a(cid:271)out the right(cid:374)ess a(cid:374)d wrongness of certain behaviours: absolutist. Deciding what we think is good and appropriate and measuring deviance from that (1) functional theory. Not good for so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t it to (cid:271)e their. Deviants can also be functional for society.
