SYG2

violation of social norms (highly subjective)

laws vs. social rules

comes about as a result of rules of behaviour in society

psychiatry and psychology have medicalized sadness to the point that anyone who is sad at any point is considered to have depressive disorder

tension between culturally accepted goals and means of achieving them

the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms

Innovation is a slight warping of the conformist's views (accumulating wealth by dishonest means)

rejects the goal but accepts the means (going to work every day but rejecting goals of employer)

rejects both the goals of society and the legitimate means of obtaining these goals (vagrants, unemployed by choice)

reject both the cultural means of society and the venues for obtaining them, but unlike the retreatist they pursue alternatives and seek to replace existing cultural norms with those in the counter culture

various mechanisms used by a society/social group to punish deviance and reinforce comformity

fundamental causes of crime are the social and economic forces operating within society; the powerful define crime

• physical: death, torture, spanking
• economic: fines, pay dock, termination
• psychological: humiliation, gossip, ostracism, opprobrium (systematic shaming)

deviance is learned

people known by their labels

social (Hispanic) vs. physical (black)

ascribing ethnic or racial identities to a relationship, social practice, or group that did not identify itself as such

how races are formed

changed by actions & power struggle

attitude vs. action

group losing power blames other group

follows orders blindly, superstitious

position in society fixed at birth and hard to change

orientation rigid (gay) vs. something you show (sadist/furry)

sexuality is complex (more than gay or straight) sexuality is a spectrum

visible (race) stereotypes

oversimplifications of behavior