CRM/LAW C107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Harold Garfinkel, Jock Young, Positivism
6 Apr 2017
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No books or scantrons for test (tuesday 31st) Jock young: constructivism: erving, becker, hoode, schward, young (broke away from positivistic) Religion: changing american mores (and stigma: u. s. becoming less religious, not long ago one could be stigmatized for not going to church on sundays, percentage of christians drifting down, 2. Blemishes of individual character: inferred from know records (history of incarceration- less apparent. Stigma develops from motivation to avoid danger: followed by exaggerated perception of characteristics that promote threat. Deviantizing: process through which deviatness as a behavior is attached to individuals (process of making someone deviant, perceptions or feelings of threat (authoritative audience interprets threat and imposing deviant status. Is a pro(cid:272)ess that ser(cid:448)es to lo(cid:449)er a person"s so(cid:272)ial status (cid:449)ithin a group or (cid:449)ithin society in general. Retrospective interpretation: once deviant status/stigma is attached, we can reread the character of the de(cid:448)iant (cid:894)to see (cid:449)hat (cid:449)e didn"t fo(cid:272)us on (cid:271)efore(cid:895)
