SOC388H1 Lecture Notes - Every Day Life, Shy People, Harold Garfinkel
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Readings contemporary sociologists both still alive and very influential in contemporary sociology. On most shallow level they both deal with some kind of deviance. Becker more concretely and explicitly studies marijuana use. Garfinkel doesn"t study deviance in the sense of explaining but in his experiment he finds a way to study social order by looking at deviations from social explanation. Labeling theory theory not developed before article becoming a marijauan user. Deviance before this was explained through characteristics of the person, genetics, social, educational etc. now it was explained through the person! Labeling theory explains that much of the how deviance develops is how we label people deviant. Once people have that label they know how others think they are deviant so they behave in those way. Explains how social behaviour develops based on labels people assign to us. Smoking weed has nothing to do with the person or the attributes of weed its self but rather labels.
