SOC212H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Elusive Quality, Real Crime, Great Range
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Deviance banned or controlled behaviour that is likely to result in punishment or disapproval. Make lives more difficult breaking rules. Instances of deviation never recognized, censured, sanctioned. Occasionally displayed publicly effort at concealment. 1) work more complex when subjects & events deliberately hidden. Unlikely to be cooperative when detected little gain from exposure. Rule breaking represented as something else denied when suspected. Alert at detecting deviance recognize conventional appearances as facades. Jason ditton & stuart henry widespread deviance in apparently normal settings. Ex. european commission of 1990s fraud & corruption. Deviants not fully aware of extent & nature of activity. 2) rarely engage in collective efforts to interpret own behaviour. Fragmented & 2nd hand knowledge of deviance. Time before intimacy develops btw subject & researcher, acts observed, processes seen in totality. Absurd to become familiar with many instances of deviance pretend they have understanding of essential characteristics. 3) theorists tend to describe phenomena differently.
