SOC223 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Rodney Stark, Intersubjectivity
7 Mar 2013
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Subcultures are essential for the understanding of deviance because it is in specific group settings that people work out a great many facets of their lives. Outsiders are often are quick to define subcultures or other associational configurations around particular themes and typically envision these groupings in rather singular and unified manners. This happens because they ignore the much fuller range of activities that take place within all subcultural arenas. Subcultures are best studied in process terms; formulative instances (8 terms: these terms are inter connected and help us fully appreciate the ways which people experience subculture, acquiring perspectives. The unique features of each group"s perspectives serve to differentiate those groups from other groups in the broader community. The perspectives that people invoke include people"s conceptions of what is and what is not, but also notions of how one might act toward and assess all things of relevance to the group at hand.
