SOCB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Malum Prohibitum, Victimless Crime, Status Offense
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Two general deviance" perspectives with regard to norms. Objectivist (positivist) and: take social norms as given and natural": assume widespread, interested in why people break norms consensus. Example: homelessness and visible poverty issue that haunts cities about what to do about it. Highly normative around norms and nuisance around crime and order. Objectivist there is something wrong with people and why people do this if they had other options. Would want to know how people would be able to conform to mainstream norms. Interested in enforcing norms around homeless (social control) How is it that these people are seen to be norm breakers and what are the consequences of making them that way. These are two opposite ends, most social scientists are close to the. Do those who control power control social norms? subjectivist end. One of the ways to think about power is through norms: yes, absolutely.
