SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Peer Pressure, Harold Garfinkel, Anomie

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Deviance, a violation of a cultural/societal norm. Deviance can be viewed as absolute or as relative to the group being studied. If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences (w. i. thomas, 1928; 572) Dramatization of evil in regards to youth. Primary deviation: rule breaking: lemert said stuttering was a deviation. Seen as being the comic relief; stigmatize them since it was abnormal to stutter. Labeled as being dumb, not swift, or slow. In his famous work, outsiders: studies in the sociology of deviance, howard becker (1973) elaborated the processes through which: primary deviance leads to secondary deviance, the importance of deviant subcultures in maintaining the deviant self-image. Outsiders refer to people labeled as deviants who accept the deviant labels. Becker (1973) described a three-stage process by which individuals become outsiders: an individual commits a deviant act (primary deviance, the person begins to accept the deviant status (secondary deviance, the deviant joins a deviant subculture.