SOCL 3501 Quiz: Lecture 3501 Test 1 (got 96%)
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Deviance: a violation of a social norm that elicits a negative reaction. Tell us what to expect from ourselves and others. The difference between deviance and crime is the law, more deviance than crime. Folkways: govern our day-to-day life, when violated we are aware: ex. Mores: rules and beliefs that are serious, when violated we judge the violator as good or bad. More likely to be formalized into law: ex. Homicide: the killing of a person by another person. Taboos: very serious violations of norms that we don"t want to talk about them: ex. Incest: every culture has some sort of incest. Cannibalism: movie- soccer team cannibals in plane crash. Positivism high consensus (highly agreed on as deviant or illegal) If deviance is real then it is different from conventional behavior. Objectivism: studying something in an objective way. Determinism: our behavior, to some extent, is determined by forces outside of the individual or society.
