SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Moral Panic, Social Fact
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Crime and deviance i: deviance can be things like behaviour, appearance, thought, deviance can be breaking a norm or something more severe like a law. Oct 6/15: while some consensus may form around the definitions of deviance, it is often found in the eye of the beholder, deviance is temporarily and culturally situated. Statistically: common conditions (ie if you are a teenager who doesn"t engage in drinking you are deviant statistically most teenagers engage in drinking, etc. ) Absolutist: moral order (absolutely right or wrong and they are universally wrong forever, think religion. ) Relativist: social product (thinks are deviant because enough people say yeah okay that"s deviant, we create deviance because we construct it. On the other end, nothing is wrong, it is only wrong because we decided to react to it. It just exists because of the way we reacted to it. ) Our sentiments can change therefore our idea of deviance can change over time. )
