SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Breaching Experiment, Counterculture, Harold Garfinkel
2 Jul 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 form, representing mores and folkways. If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences (w. i thomas, Dramatization of evil in regards to youth. In his famous work, outsideres: studies in the sociology of deviance, howard. The importance of deviant subculutures 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 beings 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 ways that mentally- ill patients managed stigma in asylums.
