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Deviance and crime-violation of social norms

Norms-behavioral codes that guide people into actions

William Sumner (1907)- defined 3 types of norms

Folkways-simple, everyday norms based on custom, tradition, etiquette-violations: eating with hands, picking nose

mores- broad societal morals whose interaction would generate more serious social condemnation-violations: interracial marriages, drug addictions

laws-strongest because supported by codified social sanctions-being arrested

2. Constructing Deviance-3 perspectives

absolutist-simple task

relativist-norms that differed from or conflicted with larger society

social power perspective-views on crime and deviance are not arbitraly formed by just any group of others

Smith and Pollack- crime, sin, poor taste

crime violates laws, sin is religous, poor taste violates folkways

ABC of Deviance- attitude, behavior, conditions

atttitude-belied systems-no religion

behavior-actions-murder, smoking weed

conditions-poor or rich, race, born into the world of deviance-not in ones control

3 Categories of S's-sin, sick, selected

sin- religious disorder

sick-mental illness

selected-behaviors intentionally selected as forms of recreation, lifestyle choices, coping strategies

Community Boundaries-boundary maintaining members continue to a certain limit and expectation

boundaries never fixed and always changing to find new ways to define out limits

Deviance and Middle Class Norms

negative deviance-non conformity-negatively evaluated

deviance admiration-non conformity-negatively evaluated

rate busting-overconformity-negatively evaluated

positive deviance- overconformity-positively evaluated

Definitions of Deviance

absolutist approach-rejected-high morals and doing good

statistical approach-rejected- deviance is rare behaviors

normative-violation of social norms

reactivist-dynamics of reactions and evaluations of a social audience

deviance was created by society

Natural Law and the Sociology of Deviance

moral order-common worldview-moral judgements

Durkheim-founding father of Sociology of Deviance-deviance is integral part of all societies because it affirms to cultural norms and values

Daniel Patrick Moynihan- defining deviancy down- decline quality of life through unqualified acceptance of too many activists formerly considered unaccepted-teenage pregnancy, abortion and drug abuse

Defining deviancy up-opposite view Daniel never touched on- Mothers Against Drunk Drivers

Alasadir Macintyre-culture dominated by experts and victims

natural law-acknowledgment that we are not ultimate creators of moral

anomie- state of normalness that sociologists identify as resulting when one is caught between the loosening moral norms