SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Official Statistics, Pwn, Elusive Quality
Document Summary
Actions met with disapproval and some sort of social control. Introduction to north american pigeons and their place in modern cities. Human interference makes them better adapted to the city. Pigeons reflect our own social patterns in the city. Pigeons as a reflection of human social organization. Few accepted truths or methods compared to other social and physical sciences. Different for other disciplines where measurements are more reliable. Assumptions about how deviance is caused or identified. Develops concepts to describe what drives those assumptions. Testable predictions about the interactions of those concepts. Laws created and applied to protect powerful groups. Some issues not present in other types of behaviour. Some flaunt their deviant status due to a specific agenda. Both reflect elusive quality of deviance (hard to understand due to hidden & obscure. Claims that observed patterns can be applied to those people not studied. Claims concepts and theories can be applied to scenarios and contexts not studied.
