SOC 0471- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 57 pages long!)
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We tend to think of deviants negatively. Serial killers and overachievers are both deviants. Norms: rules of conduct i. e. ) territoriality in an elevator, hot tub, car, etc. (evenly spaced from others in a confined space) There are two types of deviance: lower-consensus deviance, no strong agreement that this is really deviance, examples: pot heads, politicians, walmart, higher-consensus deviance, a strong agreement that this is deviance, examples: murder, robbery. Founding father of the formal sociological study of deviance. Merton looked as deviance as a category of action: No act is inherently deviant: the act itself is not deviant, it is the meaning society gives to it (context) Ver(cid:455) (cid:272)riti(cid:272)al of (cid:862)(cid:373)ai(cid:374)strea(cid:373)(cid:863) de(cid:448)ia(cid:374)(cid:272)e resear(cid:272)h: o(cid:374)l(cid:455) studied (cid:862)po(cid:449)er-less(cid:863) people (cid:449)ho (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)it o(cid:271)(cid:448)ious a(cid:272)ts of de(cid:448)ia(cid:374)(cid:272)e. The de(cid:448)ia(cid:374)t a(cid:272)ts of po(cid:449)erful people, groups, (cid:272)orporatio(cid:374)s, et(cid:272). are usuall(cid:455) (cid:862)off the radar s(cid:272)ree(cid:374)(cid:863: dole pushed filipinos off their land to use their land for pineapple fields, chocolate farms are using slaves.
