SOCI 2703 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Relativism, Relativism, Transnationalism
26 Aug 2016
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Positivism and conservatism: objective natural law and order, need to maintain social order o. Exercise social control: maintain functioning of institutions o. Conservative politicians often say that there is a natural order or morality that we need to return to. Constructionism/relativism and liberalism: deviance is completely subjective o. Created by certain people through the processes of marginalizations, labeling. This started in the 60s, with the start of the study of deviance. After the world wars people realized that america was not the ideal government/society that it claimed to be, people realized culture was a social construct that was created, and was now problematic. This view has taken over the way that we study the sociology of deviance o o. Tradition versus progress; bipartisan politics o: more information and wide array of cultural relativism due to exposure o. Less opportunity, more difficult circumstances, and globalization (confrontation of cultures and strain on the individual)
