SOCB50H3 Lecture Notes - Ringfort, Hijab, Magical Creatures In Harry Potter
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First thing is to ask people what they think is deviant. Marginal deviance is things that don"t really require a punishment, however still breaks some sort of a rule. Other deviance that doesn"t break any laws like driving suv"s , country singers etc. These are just things that people have nuisance against. Certain pet peeves, it doesn"t necessarily mean that a law or rule has been broken. Sociologists are always looking for patterns and groupings and outcasts. Deviance is any behaviour or belief or condition that violates significant social norms in the society or group in which it occurs: objective view, observable characteristics defines deviance: Universal features- the notion of wrong at right. Knowing what"s wrong and right is something that we are born with and develop. The difference between right and wrong is natural: subjective views, deviance in the eye of the beholder. Someone must tell us who/ what is deviant- socialization.
