SOC211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Stamen
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It is embedded in a social context (innately a sociological concept) What is deviant for one person/situation may not be the case for anther. Different level of reaction depending on how deviant we judge situations to. Definition of deviance collection of conditions, persons or acts that society. Typical way of thinking about the word deviance negative connotation. Problem with conceptualizing deviance this way avoid critical question of. Fails to recognize the possibility that deviance might value highly valued why these acts are conceived offensive in the first place disvalues, finds offensive, or condemns (morally repulsive deviant act) differences. Definition has to be able to account for the grey (right and wrong binary) Better account for blurry quality of deviance. No universal or unchanging entity that defines deviance (in eye of beholder) Need the other to get to the point where a behavior becomes known as. Notion that deviance occurs through reaction of others has to be an other.
