SOSA 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Social Group, Criminal Law Of Canada, Official Statistics

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 1003
• Professor: Falconer C.

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Sosa 1003 lecture 13 october 17, 2018 chapter 5 deviance and crime. Rules for greeting people vary widely from one country to the next and among different cultural groups within one country. After all, violating local norms can cause great offence and result in the loss of a contract. What some people consider normal, others consider deviant, and vice versa. No act is deviant in and of itself. People commit deviant acts only when they break a norm and cause others to react negatively. From a sociological point of view, everyone is a deviant in one social context or another. Deviance is the departure from a norm that evokes a negative reaction from others: societies establish some norms as laws. Crime is deviance that is against the law. Law is a norm stipulated and enforced by government bodies. Just as deviance is relative, so is crime.