SOC101Y1 Lecture 6: SOC207LEC6.doc
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Lecture 6 part 1 notes (scroll down for 2nd part) they both deal with some kind of deviance. Becker more concretely and explicitly as beaker studies marijuana use. garfunkel deviates from social expectation. They both have very different methods and approaches however. They both developed a perspective in sociology that is associated with their names. He wrote a book called outsiders which has to do with jazz musicians using marijuana. Labeling theory is what he is famous for. it was a radically new way of understanding deviance. Deviance is often explained by recourse to the characteristics of the person(education, personality, biology) He started to think that social behavior develops based on the labels others put on us. Becker said smoking marijuana has nothing to do with the psychological or genetical characteristics of the self(not the person), or the marijuana itself. Students would show the work we do to disrupt that social order, and how we maintain that social order.
