SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Travis Hirschi, Social Constructionism
23 Oct 2018
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Illustration - (drug addicts, criminals) - list of examples: statistical terms - rare or infrequent behaviors - does not fit into the norm of the avg. range, harm - ex. People who have mental illness - treated as deviant - difficult to ascribe harm to their difference or document the harm they cause (or tattoes) Deviance as a sociological concept: ways of thinking, acting, being subject to social control - wrong, immoral, bizarre. Types of deviance: objective - particular ways of thinking, acting, being - refers to behavior or condition itself (ex. Act of smoking weed) - the practice in itself: subjective - moral status accorded to such thoughts, actions, characteristics - placement of condition by members of society (how society views weed smokers) Safety: should take no action that could result in physical, emotional, mental, or social harm to participants.
