SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Counterculture, Frank Tannenbaum, Social Constructionism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Carolyn Gordon

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Deviance can be viewed as absolute or relative to the group being studied. Societies divide deviance into more or less serious forms, representing mores and folkways. If men define situations 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. 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) Erving goffman (1963) defined stigma as an attribute that is deeply discrediting . Being part of an undesirable social group. Ervin goffman (1961) studied the way that mentally-ill patients managed stigma in asylums.