SOC101Y1 Midterm: Midterm Review
Document Summary
Helps us understand broader social issues: political protest movements, social deviant subcultures, economic money motivated crime. Studied pigeons to see how they reflected social order and human social organization. Noticed that it reflected geographic location (healthy areas = healthy pigeons, less healthy areas = less healthy pigeons) If the behavior doesn"t fit in our realm of normal behaviors then it is deviant. Broad definition: actions met with disapproval and some sort of social: social control happens everyday (i. e. eye roll) Defining deviance will depend on the theories and methods used. This is a multiple choice question (what is the definition of control deviance?) Common sense; when something goes against common sense (act outside normal behaviors), it is deviant. 3 basic definitions on what is deviant: (1) absolutist: widespread consensus on right and wrong informed by a collective consciousness . Everyone knows what separates good behavior and bad.
