SOCI 1000U Lecture Notes - Subculture, Mind Control, Kingdom Hall
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Criminals, child-molesters, drug addicts, alcoholics, the mentally ill, chronic liars, members of religious cults . Notice that this requires the researcher to make a value judgement. Subjective labelling attributes a moral stance to the observed. In other-words, the labelling of these as deviant is subjective behaviour: statistically. A deviant behaviour is a behaviour that is uncommon. But, many non-harmful members of society are labelled deviant by society, and may even suffer harm themselves from the more numerous: mentally ill, homosexual, transgendered, mentally delayed: three theories of deviance, strain theory. Social structure and anomie" between cultural goals and the means to achieve these goals. Merton focused on marginalized economic class as the main. : normlessness, lack of ideals, lack of purpose. : deviance emerges when there is a lack of fit source of strain noting that deviant behaviour is the most common amongst the group. People cannot afford the lifestyle of the nuclear family.
