Groups of people interested in social deviance

Sources of Data

3 Perspectives of how to define deviance

Absolutist persepctive

Relativist perspective

Social power perspective

Deviance

Three types of norms

Folkways

Mores

Laws

ABC's of deviance

Ascribed Deviant Status

Achieved deviant status

Three categories of S's

Negative Deviance

Rate Busting

Deviance admiration

Positive Deviance

Cultural relativists

Crime

Formulating definitions of crime

Applying definitions of crime

How behavior patterns develop in relation to definitions of crime

Constructing an ideology of crime

Investigation of crime

Constructing the social reality of crime