SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Notre-Dame-De-Grâce, Juvenile Delinquency, Albion Woodbury Small
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The city itself was an ideal laboratory for scientific research because deviance was seen as a consequence of social disorganization: empirical work on deviance and fell into 2 categories. Micro-level case studies of individual deviants conducted ethnographically. Macro-level ecological study of rates of social problems/deviance in different areas of the city. In describing the sociology of deviance, the book has chosen to take a chronological role, describing a succession of important intellectual episodes. Each of these episodes contributed a distinct set of ideas to the debate of deviance, and each is independent enough to merit separate examination. The principal difference between the theories is their use of language similar schemes being expressed in dissimilar words. The sociology of deviance did not appear full-grown in the 19th century. Crime, sin and sheer difference of opinions and behaviours have always been moral and political problems, and thoughtful people have responded by producing body of writings.
