SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Tobacco Protest, North American Free Trade Agreement, Labeling Theory
6 Dec 2015
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How societies work: class, power, and change (5th ed) by joanne naiman. Functionalist perspective: studying what function a particular thing serves. Conflict perspective: studying what issues stem from this particular thing. Deviance: a social category representing behaviour or appearance that is collectively condemned because it departs from norms and expectations. Social norms: the dominant rules and expectations for the way people are supposed to behave, feel, and appear in a particular social situation. Low-consensus deviance: there is considerable disagreement over whether a behaviour or characteristic is deviant or not. High-consensus deviance: that a behaviour or characteristic is deviant is widely accepted. Crime: an act that breaks a criminal law. Laws: rules governing conduct created by those in position of power. Enforced by entities given to the authorities to do so. Collective morality: socially define crime and often leads to society seeking retribution for an offence they don"t feel was dealt with satisfactorily.
