Sociology 2259 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Olation, Body Piercing, Social Constructionism
11 Jun 2012
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Criminals important to focus on how people and concepts are deviant to society and its sociocul- tural processes, not just you personally. Objective views of deviance claim that the presence of certain characteristics defines deviance. Subjective views of deviance claim that there is no shared, observable characteristic that can clearly tell us who or what is deviant in canadian society. Distinction between objective and subjective is typically described as a dualism or di- chotomy, wherein objective and subjective represent 2 oppositional and mutually exclu- sive categories. However, recent shifts in definitions of deviance often go beyond this notion of objec- tive and subjective as mutually exclusive categories and instead combine aspects of both --> objective/ subjective dichotomy. Many contemporary ways of looking at deviance are blends of both objective and sub- jective approaches. Objective side of dichotomy, and typically older view of deviance, is that there is some- thing inherently deviant in a person, behaviour, or characteristic.
