Sociology 2259 Chapter Notes -Young Offenders Act, Youth Smoking, Moral Panic
15 Apr 2014
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What is considered acceptable varies between each individual. Objective deviance: cultural and historical variations in the norms that are used as the standards against which deviance is judged. Interactionist and critical theory perspectives are lenses through which sexuality is usually looked at. Interactionist: address the process by which people come to understand and attribute meaning to their own and others" sexuality, determining what the closet means to them. The sambia of new guinea: patriarchy: social power embedded in males, misogyny: extreme disgust and hatred of women. Normal manhood: at ages 7-10, boys were removed from daily contact with females in the village and split into an all male enclave for the next. Normal and deviant sexuality defined on basis of power to reproduce existing social structures. Traditional aboriginal cultures of north america life was viewed as consisting of 4 components: physical intellectual.
