SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cesare Lombroso, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Moral Panic
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While some consensus may form around definitions of deviance, it is often found in the eye of the beholder". Deviance is often temporally and culturally situated. Eg: a teenager who doesn"t do drugs is considered a statistical deviant because most teenagers try drugs at least once: absolutist. The same behaviour will always be deviant in all societies at all times or every society develops its own rules of behaviour governing such things as the use of violence, theft, etc: normative. We agree on things, but sometimes we don"t, and sometimes things change. Eg: maybe one day someone walks into class with big red shoes. But if it becomes a trend and one day everyone comes in with big red shoes, it is no longer deviant: relativist. Eg: if someone decides to wear big red shoes one day, there is nothing objectively deviant about it, but there are subjective deviant factors to it (what is and is not deviant is relative)
