SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ethnomethodology, Harold Garfinkel, Erving Goffman
3 Nov 2016
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Deviance is a violation of a cultural/societal norm. Deviance can be viewed as absolute or as relative to the group being studied. Societies divide deviance into more or less serious forms, representing mores and folkways. If men define esituations as real, they are real in their consequences. (w. i. Dramatization of evil in regards to youth. In his famous work, outsiders: studies in the sociology of deviance, Howard becker (1973) elaborated the processes through which: The importance of deviant subcultures in maintaining the deviant self-image. Outsiders refer to people labeled as deviants who accept the deviant labels. An individual commits a deviant act (primary deviance) The person begins to accept the deviant status (secondary deviance) Erving goffman (cid:523)1963(cid:524) defined stigma as (cid:498)an attribute that is deeply discrediting(cid:499) Being part of an undesirable social group. Ervin goffman (1961) studied the ways that mentally-ill patients managed stigma in asylums.
