SOCI 2610H Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Panopticon, Social Learning Theory, Egotism

• School: Trent University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 2610H
• Professor: elizabethtorrens

Document Summary

The two main ways of looking at deviance. Subjective: no observable characteristic that can tell us who or what is normal. Instead people tell us who is deviant, and you become deviant once a label/status is applied. Objective: the presence of a certain characteristic defines deviance, and the deviance is easily identified. Some being more serious than others and they ra(cid:374)ge fro(cid:373) i(cid:374)for(cid:373)al, to (cid:373)ore for(cid:373)al e(cid:454)pe(cid:272)tatio(cid:374)s . Norms can be either prescriptive or proscriptive: prescriptive: something you should do, proscriptive: something you should not do. Mores: foundation of morality in a culture (more severe, like laws) Folkways: norms as standards or expectations of behaviour can refer to informal, everyday behaviours, like your choice of clothes or how you behave at school. (less severe, like rules) Taboos: o(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g so gross that is u(cid:374)thi(cid:374)ka(cid:271)le, ofte(cid:374) so (cid:374)ast(cid:455) the(cid:455) are(cid:374)(cid:859)t e(cid:448)e(cid:374) a(cid:272)tual la(cid:449)s i. e. , (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:271)alis(cid:373), i(cid:374)(cid:272)est .