Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Warning Sign, Ibm Officevision, Anomie
22 Apr 2017
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Sociology looks at the structural causes of deviance. Problem with this definition: objective view: presence of certain characteristics defines deviance, subjective view: no shared, observable characteristics defines what or who is deviant. A behaviour or an act becomes deviant when it is socially defined as one. Objectivists (or moral absolutists : statistical rarity: though criteria what counts as a rare percentage, societal harm: physical or emotional harm to individuals or harm to the social order. For example, smoking causes harm to the individual, but spray-painting causes harm to the society: societal reaction, normative violation. Subjectivists (or moral relativist : social typing process, description: placing a label on someone who looks deviant, evaluation: taking the label and placing a judgment on it. Making a good or a bad evaluation: prescription: social control, preventative social control: prevents people from being deviant, formal: people who can actually do something e. g. police psychiatrists, profs people who will give warnings.
