SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Body Image, Harold Garfinkel, Ritualism In The Church Of England

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Deviance can be viewed as absolute or as relaive to the group being studied. Socieies divide deviance into more or less serious forms, represening mores and folkways. If men deine situaions as real, they are real in their consequences. (w. i. Labeling theory: frank tannenbaum (1938) crime and community, dramaizaion of evil in regards to youth. Edwin lemert (1951) social pathology: primary deviaion-rule breaking, secondary deviaion-agreement with socieies reacion. Subcultures: in his famous work, outsiders: studies in the sociology of deviance, howard becker (1973) elaborated the processes through which: The important of deviant subcultures in maintaining the deviant self-image: outsiders refer to people labeled as deviants who accept the deviant labels. Becker (1973) describes a three-stage process by which individuals become outsiders: an individual commits a deviant act (primary deviance, the person begins to accept the deviant status (secondary deviance, the deviant joins a deviant subculture. Master status: basis of personal idenity, self-fulilling prophecy.