Sociology 2259 Lecture Notes - Natural Product, Anomie, Scapegoating
23 Apr 2013
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Emile durkheim is considered the founding father. Viewed society as a smooth running machine. Deviance: occurs when something in that smooth running machine breaks down. Deviance was viewed as a natural product of the social order and symptomatic of a problem that must be corrected. The solution to deviance: treatment and rehabilitation. People are little pieces of the machine, playing their own role and keeping harmony. People are imminently perfect-able through the process of socialization (they are able to be molded) It is society"s job to shape each person after itself. Anomic suicide: normal response to a lack of moral regulation. Durkheim: we need rules and regulations; they are the part of the process that holds the social system together . The structure of society and its systems produce structural stain that cause deviance. Social conditions are frequently structured in such a way that they. Manifest functions: those are visible, comprehensible and overt.
