SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: White-Collar Crime, Beard Tax, Symbolic Interactionism
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Cultural norms vary deviance is relative. Deviance when someone departs from a norm and evokes a negative reaction from others. Crime deviance that is against the law. Law a norm stipulated and enforced by government bodies. Crime is relative to what is considered deviant in society: eg. Nazi"s weren"t criminals at the time, jesus was a criminal at the time. Most deviant acts are too trivial or not noticed to be punished. Stigmatized when people are negatively evaluated because of a marker that distinguishes them from others and that is labeled as socially unacceptable. John lie was stigmatized as a child for being a korean in japanese school. But if the racial discrimination law existed at the time, they wouldn"t have because of sanctions. Types of deviance and crime vary in terms of: severity of the social response (mild disapproval to capital punishment, perceived harmfulness (eg.
