SOC212H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-5: Demonic Possession, Cesare Beccaria, Spurious Relationship
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Vicarious experience: living through other exciting or interesting lives; indirect way to cope with forbidden urges. Reform: want to change something, those who have personally experienced the crime wants to help justice system. Self-protection and sophistication: knowledge is power, knowing = less afraid. Understanding oneself and others: learning choices of others can make our own choices clearer. Intellectual curiosity: just want to know what/how/why people do things. Statistical approach: deviance from a common center, good simple, objective way but not reliable. Harmfulness: physically, functionally or ontologically (disruption of faith, order, system, etc. ) Normative violation: conduct that departs from norms set for people in their social status; though all deviance violates some normative standard, violating norms is not enough to establish that deviance has occurred. Stigmatizing labels: less worthy than other people. Deviance is: when there are observers, to observe some kind of behavior, characteristics, appearance or belief that violates normative standards that are regarded as significant.
