SOC224 Lecture Notes - Tanya Harding, Norm (Social), Nancy Kerrigan

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Deviance is socially constructed: the meaning a thing has isn"t the intrinsic meaning itself, rather it is the meaning giving to it by social agents ( ex. When we see prostitution occurring, we judge people with our minds already made up. This is based on the belief of us being in the age of the spectacle : the spectacular is what gets constituted as the everyday. When that happens, that shapes the way we view and govern an issue. For example, if a pitbull goes crazy and maims someone. That one case, constructs our view of all pitbulls and will shape the way we govern them (ex. When we see the swastika, we are upset at the swastika, we aren"t thinking of the symbol itself, we are attending to what the symbol represents. The idea of what is deviant changes according to social group (derek and language, tattoos). In a university classroom, its inappropriate to cuss.

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