SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Truancy, Gang
24 Dec 2016
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Deviance is usually associated with negative behaviour, crime, or substance abuse. Social commentator mason cooley (2006) conformity constricts us. David lee (2006) you must be deviant if you want to do anything new. Who is deviant? characteristics of the broader society and sociocultural processes. Deviance is violating norms accepted by society, making the person an outcast. Deviance specialists: criminal and non-criminal form of deviance are analyzed. People whom focus specifically on criminal deviance are criminologists. Anyone. (owever, not specific to people you don"t like but people with. **deviance specialists can"t agree on what fits the definitions of (cid:498)deviance(cid:499) Objective(cid:498) these characteristics deem you to be deviant, if you share/ have these characteristics you are deviant. (cid:499) Subjective: (cid:498)there is no shared characteristics that deem you as deviant. Someone must tell you what is deviant in the canadian society(cid:499) is dualism/ dichotomy: represent two. The difference between both oppositional and mutually exclusive categories.
