[SOC 100] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (66 pages long!)
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Becoming a marihuana user - by howard s. becker. There"s two types of marijuana users and the type of user you are determines how it. Situational factors contribute in the use of marijuana affects you. Marijuana is not addictive such as alcohol and opiates. People don"t get high the first time they smoke it. Social interactions matter because they branch out into the social world. The individual relates to this social world which is how you envision the social. How the individual acts in this social world. Socialization is by internalizing the social world in order to participate in this social world. To be deviant, it is to violate social norms and to recognize that they have been (rosenhan p197) violated. If there wasn"t social norms then there wouldn"t be any deviance. How you view deviance also defines how you view social norms. Understandings of what constitutes deviant behavior are tremendously culturally dependent.
