SOC 2106 Lecture : Lecture 1

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2106
• Professor: Fatemeh Givechian

Document Summary

When scholars want to study deviance and social problems they usually have a: Methodology: the procedure of getting information, the manner of studying. Age, ethnicity, education of the poor: we need a procedure to study to explain the phenomena. Deviance: something which deviates from the norms, which is not according to the norms of the society, when you deviate from the expected way of how you do something. Norm of society: something that the majority of people in a society think is right or correct. Social problems: unsatisfactory situations that cover more than one person. Act causes and consequences, types, universal, culture bound. Humans are the only ones who intentionally take their own life. Some people concentrate on the social problem of suicide the act, others have concentrated on the individual who commits suicide. Even though we study the same acts, the reason for some acts may be different among people universal or culture bound.