SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Content Analysis, Garbology, Virtual Reality
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Chapter 2 - understanding and testing theories of deviance o o. No single cause can effectively explain al kinds of deviant designations and deviant actions no single theory has managed to stake out a monopoly on truth. Many paths lead to deviance, some more heavily than others. One path marked by psychopathy mainly begun within the deviant. As long as there are many paths, we are unlikely to develop a single theory that explains every kind of deviance. Explanations have been described as the stories we tell each other in attempts to produce some order in our lives. They allow us to feel as if we know why something happened and predict future chances of it happening again. Study of deviance is systematic, comprehensive and self-conscious. Theories are mainly empathetic, scientific or ideological. All social theories have elements of all three, but what matters is the degree of emphasis placed on these featyres.
