SA 150 Chapter 9: Ch. 9 Deviance

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Ann Travers

Document Summary

The social foundations of deviance: deviance varies according to cultural norms. Different legal drinking ages at diff. provinces: people become deviant as others define them that way. Depends on how others perceive or respond to other ppls" activities: both rule making and rule breaking involve social power. Powerful ppl use rules to protect their interests. (marx) Emile durkheim: the functions of deviance: deviance affirms cultural values and norms. There can be no justice w/o crime: responding to deviance clarifies moral boundaries. Right and wrong. massacre: responding to deviance promotes social unity. Anniversaries to mourn a: deviance encourages social change. There is limited opportunity, especially among the poor, to get rich. Innovation: the attempt to achieve a culturally approved goal(wealth) by. Ritualism: resolve the strain of limited success by abandoning cultural ppl may resort to other ways to get rich unconventional means (drug sales) goals in favour of almost compulsive efforts to live respectably. effect, drops out.