Sociology 2259 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Edwin Sutherland, Culture Jamming, Subculture

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2259
• Professor: Pamela Cushing

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Culture: all the things you need to know to be a member. Explain deviance as behaviour or ideas that are produced in subcultures and are transmitted through learning . Subcultures are groups of people who reject in many ways the influence and norms of the dominant culture: coexist within dominant culture. ~ also look up dead-heads sounds groovesville. Subcultures often involve values and norms that are deviant from the perspective of the wider culture: argot subcultures have their own language insider language (ex. noob, a. Stereotyping exaggerates cultural differences and treat whole groups as deviants. In most cases, the stereotypes are poor representations of the real behaviour of most members of the group. This can and does impede on the notion of a fair hearing. Question: why do some people become deviants and some not: from the chicago school, deviance is learned as is conformity.