SOCY 122 Chapter Notes -Affect Theory, Social Constructionism, Enculturation

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

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Sociology notes week 17: social disorganization theory see book, is something deviant because it is not part of the normal world of behaviour that one expects statistical margins of social behaviours. Added influential postmodernism perspective to the study of human behaviour and identification of deviance: durkheim"s study of suicide modernist approach to the study of social behaviour and definition of deviance within that tradition. Trying to theoretically understand social behaviour created conditions that led to postmodernist approaches. Durkheim"s study of suicide: useful for studying deviant behaviour because: Suicide is an atypical behaviour that was at one time unlawful. Durkheim"s work sits at the origins of sociology as an independent discipline. The way he treated suicide initiated how sociologists approached deviant behaviour sociologically. Looking at theories of deviance in a historical sketch shows how the concept of deviant behaviour has been defined: approach to suicide and deviant behaviour centered on three points: