Sociology 1020 Lecture 3: Paradigms

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 1020
• Professor: Kim Luton

Document Summary

Dysfunctions of deviance: reduces internalization of norms, difficulty in determining effective solutions, creating potential for abuse of power, regulation of one problem creates a new problem e, marginalization. Focus on who has the power to create rules that criminalize those with less power: social rules emerge from conflict and serve the interests of society"s powerful, members of powerful groups are less likely to break the rules because they make the rules and they are already powerful so there is no reason to do so, members of powerless groups are more likely to break the rules because they groups have nothing to lose. George herbert mead: interactions involves taking of the role of the other putting ourselves in other"s shoes, we think reflexively: take into account what others are thinking and feeling, the more closely connected we are to someone, the more their opinions of us affect us, emergence of the multiple personalities.