SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Body Modification, Medicalization, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Snyder, Jennifer

Document Summary

Does not go against the larger culture, it fits within the larger society"s beliefs: countercultures: a group whose values, beliefs, norms, and related behaviors place its members in opposition to the broader culture. Gangs, or as subtle as people with different sexual orientations. Defining deviance: common definition: the violation of society"s norms, people"s opinions of deviance can vary, ways of defining deviance, statistical, moral, societal reaction, normative, legal, medical. ~problematic definition: durkheim: deviance is something that is statistically different than the average. Sociological method of statistics in order to understand society. If enough people have agreed on a way to act, those who act different are deviated. Lizard man- has embraced body modification, statistically rare according to durkheim. Body modification such as ear piercings is not deviant. Being a hero, you are doing something that no one else is doing. People with high iq"s are statistically deviant because there are so few of them.