SOCI 2703 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Anomie, Centrality
26 Aug 2016
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When boundary violations gain enough support, they become new acceptable behaviors; as such deviance may force a group to rethink and redefine its moral boundaries and change its customary ways. Kai erickson: deviant or asocial behavior may seem disruptive and upsetting in an immediate sense but o serves in the long run to promote stability for the social order as a whole. The functions of deviance in society is that it leads us to redraw the social boundaries of acceptabilitygoode. Sociology of deviance has always been critiqued by the conflict theorists and conservative positivists. Centrality of the politics of deviance how definitions of right and wrong are established and maintained how collectives in every society struggle over notions of what is to be demarcated as acceptable and unacceptable behavior: durkheim. Argued that the key is social cohesion (or integration), the degree to which members of a society feel united by shared values and other bonds anomie and suicide.
