SOC212H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Crack Epidemic, Social Forces, Libido
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Lecture: deviant act focus on particular instance of deviance, not the relationships surrounding them, examine nature of the transaction: Way participants (do/don"t) interact with another: all deviant acts involve one or more people, consist of purposeful behavior to accomplish a deviant goal. Others can accompany the deviant before/during the act. Two deviants may commit two independent individual deviant acts together. Non-behavioral forms: obesity, minority group status, physical disability, deviant belief system. Loner deviants overlap w/ individual deviants, but also differences: Loners, don"t need to exclusively rely on themselves to accomplish their acts of deviance victims (rapists: cooperative deviant acts committed 2+ voluntary participants. Usually involve transfer of illicit goods, acts, or money. Both came to interaction wanting to give, and get something: conflict deviant acts between parties were 1 or more force the interaction on the unwilling other(s) Alt: seemingly cooperative ends with one part defrauding the other. Conflictual acts = highly volatile in character.
