SOCI 325 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Child Murder, List Of Countries By Intentional Homicide Rate, Mass Murder
16 May 2014
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Author did a review essay on how sociologists have defined deviance. Problem: that list is too long and it"s not clear what belongs and what doesn"t! We can attempt to define deviance instead of classifying it: clearly, any attempt to classify will result in a virtually endless list. a concept is more appropriate as the definition can comprise many. There are questions about good, bad, evil, rule following and rule breaking: cant equate wearing glasses with mental illness etc not having the same moral orientation as major crimes. Sin is deviant (conception of sin is from religious teaching) actually from medicine because dm4: diagnostic and statistical manuals/pysch manual: what is pysch and whats not. Child convicted of his kid and convinced him that he killed his parents but doesn"t remember found guilty first degree murder 18 years in jail and released because of dna evidence he got 60 million dollars.
