SOCIOL 2C06 Chapter 1: Deviance, Definitions and the Medical Proff
15 Apr 2014
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Chapter one: deviance, definitions and the medical profession: not a change in behavior but how it is defined, most things have been given medical meanings now, rehabilitation has replaced punishment, positivist and interactionism perspective, positivist; deviance is real that exists in an objective experience, witchcraft of salem village; they let the girls that said they were victims of witchcraft got to. Interctionist; morality as it is constructed relative to actors and context prosecute anybody as they were believed and many people died or went to prison until they saw the girls were abusing their power and didn"t believe them anymore: cant be deviance without social rules, social control developed by edward a. ross, disease used to be given supernatural causes, and medicine was from preists and shamans.
