SOCB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Aloha Shirt, Status Offense, Mug Shot
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Week 3 - september 20 th , 2016. Two divergent (polar opposite) deviance perspectives with regard to norms: objectivist (positivist) Take social norms as given and natural; assume widespread consensus. Norms are natural and what people follow. And how people can be made to conform. Conservative position in some sense: subjectivist (humanist) Do not take social norms as natural, given norms are a product of social relations. Do not assume widespread consensus acknowledge conflict and dissent. Interested in how norms are constructed and what the consequences are. Not concerned with conformity but the consequences. E. g. , street begging: vagrancy laws and safe street acts against begging, general views that people shouldn"t beg, makes people uncomfortable, subversive to so many norms: Something wrong with the beggars: subjectivist position: Not clear whether it is good or bad. Doesn"t assumed widespread consensus that street begging is bad. What are the social consequences of how norms are constructed.
