SOC 2106 Lecture 3: sept 21 2015 lecture notes
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Positivist (1: absolutism (deviance is always wrong, objectivism (impersonal, determinism (always going to be; no choice) Constructionist (2: relativism (deviance is sometimes okay, subjectivism (personal, voluntarism ( uid) Continuum of deviance rather than a dichotomy. Low consensus deviance: walking around your house naked. Social problem: an alleged situation that is incompatible with the values of a signi cant number of people who agree that action is needed to alter the situation. C. wright mills distinguished between personal troubles and public issues. Personal troubles: things that affect individuals and their immediate surroundings. Public issue: things that have an impact on large numbers of people and are matters of public debate (sociological imagination) Theory: a set of interrelated propositions, constructed and tted together logically which. Theories of deviance claims to explain one or more aspects of the world around us. Explanations: stories we tell each other in attempts to produce some order in our lives.
