SOC211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Natural Product, Summary Offence, Conditional Sentence
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Varies from time to time, context to context, and place to place. Deviance isn"t characteristic of the individual or a quality of the act the person commits. Rather the application by others of a community"s rules and resulting labeling of someone as an "outsider" Even universally held taboos, like murder, can vary in their definition and application. "deviance is not marginal, it is central to what we do" "boundaries are never a fixed property of any community. They are always shifting as the people of the group find new ways to define the outer limits of their universe, new wats to position themselves on the larger cultural map" Varies from time to time, context to context, and place to. Deviance isn"t characteristic of the individual or a quality of of a community"s rules. They are always shifting as the people of the group find new ways to define the outer limits of their universe, new wats.
