SYG2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Extreme Measures, Atorvastatin, Mccarthyism
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Mechanisms that create normative compliance in individuals. Unwritten and unexpressed rules of social life: formal social sanctions: Laws and criminal justice enforcement prohibiting deviant behavior: social deviance: Transgression of social established norms: crime: The violation of laws enacted by society. Defining deviance: social construction of deviance: there is no behavior that is itself objectively deviant, what is deviant depends on: Sociological take on crim: (cid:862) t(cid:396)ipped of ethi(cid:272)al (cid:396)atio(cid:374)alizatio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d philosophi(cid:272)al p(cid:396)ete(cid:374)sio(cid:374)s, a (cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:373)e is a(cid:374)(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g that a g(cid:396)oup i(cid:374) po(cid:449)e(cid:396) (cid:272)hooses to p(cid:396)ohi(cid:271)it. (cid:863) How are they different: lipitor vs marijuana, one difference: how they are obtained. Acquisition that goes against society: moral panic: The social construction of evil, deviance, or a societal menace defined by a group that produces fear and hysteria among the population and is used to justify extreme measures. The red scare: (cid:1005)9(cid:1008)(cid:1004)"s to (cid:1005)9(cid:1009)(cid:1004)"s atta(cid:272)k o(cid:374) leftists, (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)ists, (cid:862)(cid:396)eds(cid:863, on marijuana and the federal bureau of narcotics. Mccarthyism: house on unamerican activities committee.
