SOCI 325- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 34 pages long!)
28 Mar 2018
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Nightmare of bureaucracy: this is what weber called, is distrusted by authority when you are simply following the rules, deflected as deviant or as a criminal. Subject of inquiry: about deviance and control in society, concept of crimes, deviance is a social construction subject to interpretation, if we exclude some behavior, we might realize problems when generating theories about crime and deviance. The concept of crime: in canada, martial rights were extended to gays and lesbians in 2005. In iran, those convicted of homosexual acts are lashed or even executed: definition of deviance vary across space. Crime: define use of force and fraud, two american sociologist, argue that crime and deviance are black and white issues, reader to banned or controlled behavior which is likely to attract punishment or disapproval. Positivists (science: absolutism (intrinsically real, objectivism (observable, determinism (casual explanation) Constructionists (human action/behavior: relativism (a label, subjectivism (a personal experience)
