SOC100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Banksy, Emily Murphy, Essentialism
12 Sep 2018
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Deviance is framed - shows how children learn to think of themselves as deviant and bad (or not?) from society around them. Deviance: behaviour that strays from the norm. A category that changes with time, place, culture. Ranges from folkways to serious infringements of laws. Crime: an act that violates criminal law and is punishable with fines, jail terms, and other sanctionsthe two are not always the same! Privileged status of the wealthy and powerful. Overt characteristics: the actions or qualities taken as explicitly violating the cultural norm - public actions, fashion. Covert characteristics: the unstated qualities that might make a group a target for sanctions - age, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation. State of normlessness - norms and values are weak or unclear. Strain theory: social structure can limit legitimate means to acquiring cultural goals. Individuals adapt to the inconsistency/imbalance between means and goals. Criminal deviance; accept goals and rejection or lack of access to socially legitimate meansstraincrime.
