SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Restorative Justice, Culture Shock, Richard Cloward

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

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Sociology of deviant behaviour (part i) week 20 reading activity study guide. Before you begin reading the en- cyclopedia entries or pages 204-14 of. Sociology and the contemporary world, take a minute to write out what you think sociologists could focus upon when they study deviance. From my knowledge of what deviance means, before reading the book or any encyclopedia terms, is straying from the norms or accepted ways of acting. So in terms of sociology, it would mean straying from society"s norms. Sociologists could focus on the obvious question of why people feel the need to stray from what is socially acceptable. Now read erich goode"s entries deviance and deviance, crime and as well as the material on pages 204-8 of sociology and the contemporary world. I would change the focus so that deviant behaviour is looked at within the context of the act and in the historical period of the act.