SOCA02H3 Chapter : DRUGS AND THE SMAL-TOWN VORTEX
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Msl read ing #21: down on ma i n street: drugs and. T he small-town vortex by: paul draus & robert g. one type of social deviance, according to sociologists, is crime. if deviance is the violation of a social norm, then a crime is the violation of social norms that have been made into laws. I ntroduction: small-town america, social networks, and substance abuse. as in the inner city, illegal drugs have a home in rural america. the abuse of mind-altering substances in small towns and rural areas is no novelty and should come as no surprise. nonetheless, the belief in a rural-urban divide, in regards to drug use and other issues, persists. cities are seen as places where people are physically proximate but socially distant, while in rural areas the situation is reversed.
