SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Jock Young, Erving Goffman, System On A Chip
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Deviance is not crime vs conformity (just as gender is not just male vs female, as defined by fb now too) Symbolic interactionism: ppl act based on how they perceive their surroundings, learned through our social interaction experiences. George mead - me: social self vs i: response to me vs generalized other: belief of society"s expectations. Charles cooley - looking glass self: view self from 3rd person: roots from chicago school, social learning, functionalism, pragmatism: react to world based on past experience. Rise in popularity - rise in postmodern thinking/ education/ perspectives - shift to broader category of deviance, not strict crime. Deviance has no category, something is normal/abnormal based on how we react/define it, reflected by social power dynamics. Tannenbaum dramatization of evil: deviance amplification: many involved in crime but those caught more likely to become more involved in crime bc separating them from others & labelling as deviant dramatizes them.
