SOCY 275 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Takers, Socialization, Social Control

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 275
• Professor: Stephen Baron

Document Summary

The statistical approach: missing the evaluation of judgement of the behaviour, look at a behaviour to see if its frequent or if only a small group of people do it. If a small number of people are doing something than its probably wrong. But some things that minorities do are not always wrong wither ex. This approach is missing a judgment of the behaviour. People will judge what"s right and what wrong and what they should and shouldn"t do. Normative definition approach being bad: rules where we have expectations of peoples conduct in situations, rules that we have acquired to regulate behaviour, deviance is something that violates social norms in situations. Deviance is bound by time and place. Pervasiveness: the amount of time and resources that people devote to the activity, the more time resources, the more organized the activity.