SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Asceticism, Homicide, Pacifism
15 Feb 2013
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Defining deviance: a culture of voyeurism, reality tv, Growing up online, news programming and mean world. On the sociology of deviance (adler ch 1 pg. Erikson asserts that deviance and the social reactions it evokes are key focal concerns of every community. Deviance leads us to continually redraw the social boundaries of acceptability. The very institutions and agencies mandated to manage deviance tend to reinforce it. Society"s expectations that deviants will not reform foster the self-fulfilling prophesy . Deviant behaviour in social units called communities . Communities are boundary maintaining: each has a specific territory in the world as a whole. It controls the fluctuation of its consistent parts so that the whole retains a limited range of activity within the larger environment. The only material found in a society for marking boundaries is the behaviour of its members or rather, the networks of interaction which link these members together in regular social relations.
