CRJU302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Addiction, Double Standard

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CRJU302
• Professor: Anderson Tammy

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Deviance: a term that can refer to: acts or behaviors, traits- individuals, groups- types of traits can be, physical/biological, mental/emotional/psychological, social/aesthetic, conditions, people or groups. Deviance = violation of a norm, rule, or standard for or by what is listed above. Constructionist: there are no absolute, unchanging or universal features that define deviance, deviance is constantly being redefined by people over the course of time, these definitions vary tremendously, deviance is in the eyes of the beholder. Rules for the distinction of the normal from the pathological. Emile durkheim: durkheim distinguishes between to orders of facts: Normal phenomena: facts that are common to most individuals (seen as entirely appropriate) are referred to as normal. Yet there is no objective criterion to distinguish sickness from health in social phenomena. Health can"t be applied in exactly the same way for each person. It has to be established for the most common circumstances. (which everyone deviates from to some extent).