1 Housekeeping Test in 1 week Gender, Deviance Office hours Tues 2-4 EXTRA office hours Mon 1:30-3:30 Study guide is available online With highlights Important to read the chapters thoroughly! Extra practice questions posted by Monday afternoon. Chapter 6: Deviance n Terminology & Basics Role of Context Violation of Norms Levels of seriousness Sociological Perspectives Deviance: behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society. Social control: techniques/strategies to inhibit deviance, enhance conformity Formal Informal Obedience: Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure (more likely to be formal) Conformity: Going along with peers that have no special right to direct behavior (more likely to be informal) Non-deviant (conforming) behavior might result from: Chapter 6: Deviance Terminology & Basics Role of Context Violation of Norms Levels of seriousness Sociological Perspectives
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Housekeeping Test in 1 week Gender, Deviance
Office hours Tues 2-4 EXTRA office hours Mon 1:30-3:30
Study guide is available online With highlights Important to read the chapters
thoroughly! Extra practice questions posted by
Monday afternoon.
Chapter 6: Deviance
n Terminology & Basics Role of Context Violation of Norms Levels of seriousness
Sociological Perspectives
Deviance: behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.
Social control: techniques/strategies to inhibit deviance, enhance conformity
Formal Informal
Obedience: Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure (more likely to be formal)
Conformity: Going along with peers that have no special right to direct behavior (more likely to be informal)
Non-deviant (conforming) behavior might result from:
Chapter 6: Deviance
Terminology & Basics Role of Context Violation of Norms Levels of seriousness
Sociological Perspectives
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Chapter 6: Deviance
n Terminology & Basics Role of Context Violation of Norms Levels of seriousness
Sociological Perspectives
Brings home Sociology’s contribution:
– Beyond individual in examining and understanding deviance
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Another example of role of context and how should shape interventions:
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Consider use of Mau forest
Yes, formally “deviant”but most effective way to reduce forest pressure is not about laws
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Chapter 6: Deviance
Terminology & Basics Role of Context Violation of Norms Levels of seriousness
Sociological Perspectives
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• Parallel to cultural relativism?• To understand “deviant” behavior, view
from cultural perspective?• Generate more informed, and effective,
interventions?
More ex of “social construction” of deviance:
Naomi Wolf: “beauty myth”
vs. Nigerian “fattening room”
Deviance: behavior that violates standards/expectations.
“Empowering tool”
Deviance is relative across groups within cultures.
n (Phillips 1999)
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Consider PDA by sexuality
Stigma: Label used to devalue members of certain group
Social construction of “the family”
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• KEY POINT: Times change• And, therefore “deviance” changes
• Consider smoking
Anti-smoking campaign
Key: “Deviance” is socially constructed and, therefore, varies across cultures, groups & time:
•Appearance•Family form•PDA•Smoking
• By knowing what’s deviant, we know what’s not social order
• And only SOME deviance is criminal
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Chapter 6: Deviance
n Terminology & Basics Role of Context Violation of Norms Levels of seriousness
Sociological Perspectives
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