SOC 2070- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 151 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Patrick Parnaby

Document Summary

Deviance dance: when a group labels another as deviant, yet another group might not. Deviant career: howard becker says that deviance emerges progresses, and changes over tie, and there are stages to involvement in deviance just like there are stages in the development of a career. They analyze the relationship between human struggle for power i history and the ritual construction deconstruction and reconstruction of normative social boundaries. Social rules do not emerge out of consensus but rather out of con ict and serve the interest of the most in uential group in soiciety. Underscore the fact that the bodies of knowledge and norms by which we judged deviance and normality vary fro women and men. Although their estimates often con icted, journalists and anti-squeegee claimants were preoccupied from the outset with determining how many squeegee kids there actually were in toronto.