SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Voyeurism, Candid Camera, Impression Management
2 Mar 2013
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Every community occupies a specific space in the world, which marks it as a special place. A community maintains boundaries as its members tend to confine and limit themselves to a certain range of conduct and behaviour. Human communities maintain boundaries for the following reasons: to retain a given pattern of consistent activity and behaviour, to make a possible a degree of stability, to retain cultural integrity. The networks of social interaction and relationships between members. The person labelled as deviants one whose activities have moved outside the margins of the group. The most critical for publicizing boundaries are those which take place between deviant persons and official agents of the community including: criminal trials and punishment, psychiatric determinations of sanity. Erikson states the newspapers and radio and television offer much of the same kind of entertainment as public hangings. Over time there are changes in group structure and leadership changes in the surrounding environment.
