SOC 505 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Jerry Reinsdorf, Profit Motive, Racialization

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 505
• Professor: Nicole Neverson

Document Summary

Deviance is any thought, action or feeling that runs contrary to social standards or expectations. Deviance can be thought of on a continuum of tolerable behaviour. For instance, on one end there is tolerable behaviour, on the other, extremely problematic or unacceptable behaviour and all the shades of grey in between (wilbert leonard. Norms are socially constructed as people interact with each other and determine a range of accepted actions, traits or ideas that consistent with their values. Deviance is socially constructed as people negotiate the limits of what they will accept and then identify the actions, traits and ideas that go beyond those limits. Power relations influence the process of negotiation normative limits are seldom meaningful unless they can be enforced. Most actions, traits and idea in social world will fall into a normally accept range and those that fall outside involve deviant under and over conformity.