SOC395H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Labeling Theory, Medicalization, Homophile

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20 Feb 2016
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Readings: conrad, peter and joseph w. schneider. Homosexuality: 18th century: dominant, deviance is socially constructed, rather than focus on an individual, it"s focus is on explaining the societal, issues of power is examined constructions of deviance. Who is authorized is to control the dominant definitions of deviance. Rely on a certain moral code on the legitimacy of their claims. Under the criminal definition of homosexuality, there was the moral definition that started with the church. Moral prohibitions (sins) -> medicalization (sickness and: 18th-20th century. Homosexuals as sexually regressed and emotionally fixated. 186 i gather from your letter it is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime and cruelty too : homosexuality is nothing to be ashamed of and cannot, pg. 189 bergler: 10 characteristics of homosexuals be classified as an illness. 3 % of men and 3% of women were exclusively homosexual.

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