SOC 014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ethnic Nationalism, Racial Hygiene, Aryan Race

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 014
• Professor: Lutz F Kaelber

Document Summary

Involves causal theories to explain why deviance happens: constructionism. Positivism focuses on abco of deviance as objects of explanation: attitudes, behavior, physical conditions, organizations. European modern nation states developed and replaced tribes as the source of support and protection: ethnonationalism: views ethnicity as the foundation of the nation. Ex: the views of nazis about the aryan race. According to evolutionary biologists, the more diverse a society/group is, the more likely it is to survive and cope with change. Supernatural approach: deviance is viewed as a byproduct of bad spirits. Doesn"t take into account people"s emotions or the fact that people do not always behave rationally. Individual pathology model: emerge in the mid-1800s with the publication of charles. Gave rise to eugenics in the us and racial hygiene in nazi germany. Social pathology: attributed deviance to detrimental social conditions: emerged at the end of the 1800s as an expansion of individual pathology model to the person"s surrounding family.