Social Construction
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- what is social construction view?
- that there is no absolute, unchanging, or universal features that defined deviance. that there is so definition because it it is socially constructed by people
- what are the sub catergories?
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1. Relativism
2.Subjectivism
3. voluntarism - What is relatvism?
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Deviance is a label assigned by others
The label comes not from the behavior but is socially constructed
Therefore deviance is not absolutely real - What is subjectivism?
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Deviance is a subjective experience
Humans are not lab rats, to be studied and controlled
To understand humans and groups, one must see with their eyes - What is voluntarism?
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Deviance is a voluntary act
Humans have and use free will
Persons believe their actions to have positive meaning - What are Social Constructionist theories?
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!. Labeling Theory
2. Phenomenological Theory
3. Conflict Theory - What is the Labeling Theory?
- process by which deviants and non deviants interacts. focuses on powerrelations. the relationship between the labeler and the labeled
- What are the consequences of labeling?
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1. Macro level (inward) once an individual has a deviant label and the label becomes a form of a deviant master status
2. Macro level labeler an individual that have been given powers they are representatives
3. micro level a deviant who takes on the image and they begin to identify the deviant status
3. micro level labeler a person that his or her own views on how to interpurt whats deviant - What is Conflict theory
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how the powerful define and control the powerless as deviants
Cultural conflict: what is right and wrong what is right in one and what is wrong in another
social conflict: incompatible interests, needs, and desires of diverse groups within a society - what is the Phenomenological Theory?
- assumes that all kinds of people whether deviant or labelers are always wanting to defind or interprete deviance