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Sociology of Deviance
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Sociology
Undergraduate 2
09/22/2013

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positivist perspective
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holds deviance to be absolutely or intrinsically real, possesses some qualities that distinguish it from conventionality
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Travis Hirschi
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"the person may not have committed a 'deviant' act, but he did (in many cases) do something. And it is just possible that what he did was a result of things that happened to him in the past; it is also possible that the past in some inscrutably way remains with him and that if he were left alone he would do it again."
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Gwynn Nettler
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"Some people are more crazy than others; we can tell the difference; and calling lunacy a name does not cause it."
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who are positive sociologists likely to study?
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deviant behavior and deviant persons
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Absolutism
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deviance as absolutely real
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objectivism
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deviance as an observable object
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determinism
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deviance as a determined behavior
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three assumptions of positivist sociologists
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1. deviance is absolutely real in that it has certain qualities that distinguish it from conventionality
2. deviance is an observable object in that a deviant person is like an object and thus can be studied objectively
3. deviance is determined by forces beyond the individual's control
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relativism
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deviance as a lable
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Howard Becker
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"Deviant behavior is behavior that people label so."
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relativity principle
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behavior gets defined as a deviant relative to a given norm or standard of behavior, which is to say, the way people react to it
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subjectivism
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deviance as a subjective experience
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