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About Deviance and Social Control
This guide provides selected course-specific resources for SO459 / SO859: Deviance and Social Control
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Crash Course Sociology: Deviance
- Crash Course Sociology: Deviance (Streaming, Academic Video Online) What is social deviance? Who defines what is deviant and how to people come to behave that way? Today we’re going to explore biological and psychological approaches to explaining deviance, including what each perspective can bring to the table, and their inherent limitations. From there, we’ll explain the sociological perspective and the social foundations of deviance.
- Crash Course Sociology: Theory & Deviance (Streaming, Academic Video Online) Last week we introduced deviance as a concept, but today we’re going return to our major paradigms in sociology and how each approaches deviance. We’ll explore how structural functionalism sees deviance fulfilling a function in society; how deviance is constructed, according to symbolic interactionism; and finally, how conflict theory views deviance as tied to power and inequality.
