SOCL 3501 Chapter : Chapter 1 And 2 Notes
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Expectations for us: folkways etiquette, mores morals/serious beliefs, taboos very serious norms. Sanctions can be positive or negative, formal or informal. Objectivism voluntarism of the individual. different doing different things for different reasons. good or bad. Society has to determine what is good and what is bad: absolutism deviance is absolutely real. Which means there are people: determinism to some extent, our behavior is determined by forces outside, objectivism treating your subject in an objective way, relativism deviance is relative. If this is the case then nothing is inherently: subjectivism (context) want to understand what it means to the actor or audience, what do they define and see as what they"re doing, voluntarism people act voluntarily. Lombroso wrote a book saying people were born criminals. Hadn"t advanced as much as regular people. autopsy of criminals to see if criminals had different physical features.
