SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Boogie 2Nite, Organ Trade, Mothers Against Drunk Driving
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Tattoo"s, the baby smoking cigarettes, g20 protests in toronto. Some might say walking in elevator and staring at all the people could be deviant. 9/11 was a deviant act, but what if the state told you to blow up a building. The state told you too? for war purposes. While some consensus may form around definitions of deviance, it is often found in the eye of the beholder . Deviance is often temporally and culturally situated. Statistical model: common conditions determine what is normal or deviant, statistical minority represents deviance (most teens drink and commit crime, teenager who does not drink alcohol or non-criminal teens are deviant) Absolutist model: deviance results from a value judgment based on absolute standards, absolut moral order- normal is good, and there is something obviously bad in each deviant act (religious proscriptions against homosexuality its just wrong ) Not defined by the social norms but there is a universality about deviance.