SOCI 325 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Methamphetamine, Hypersexuality, Satanic Ritual Abuse
27 Nov 2013
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Erikson- the deviant helps its community establish its moral boundaries and therefore its identity as a community. Communities are boundary maintaining: take over a particular niche in cultural space . The only material found in a society for marking boundaries is the behavior of its members (networks of interactions) Group declared how much variability and diversity is tolerated before group loses shape. Newspapers are the same entertainment as public hangings. Boundaries are never a fixed property of any community. Deviant forms of conduct often seem to derive nourishment from the agencies devised to inhibit them. Dramatic ceremony to become deviant, then released with nothing. We should be wary that of the assumption that a well structured society is designed to prevent deviant behavior. Two currents in society: high degree of conformity and those who encourage diversity, deviants patrol the boundaries. Step before the formulation of a relational statement- conception. Conceptions frequently confused with substantive theories, which reflect conceptions.
