SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Fact, Moral Panic, Solitary Confinement

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Nathan Innocente

Document Summary

Ambiguity: while some consensus may form around definitions of deviance, deviance is often temporally and culturally situated it is often found in the eye of the beholder". Prescientific approaches: parables/myths and sin, supernatural or demonic deviance, witchcraft and paganism. Classical approaches: enlightenment rationality and empiricism, social contract, free will, calculus and deterrence. Functionalism and consensus: why do you break the rules, consensus about deviant behaviours - collective morality, harm: costello and consensus about harm, durkheim - morality, law, and social facts. Conflict and power: who makes the rules, definitions of deviance are not absolute but are created by, deviant labels are applied against those who threaten the, chambliss and vagrancy laws powerful groups interests of the powerful. Prominent escapees: thomas william mccauley, donald oag. 27 years for attempted murder, armed robbery, burglary. If you were doing time with donnie, you made sure that you didn"t offend him.