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

2. Constructing Deviance-3 perspectives

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

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

Definitions of Deviance

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

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