Course Topics

• Topic 1 Why Study Deviance?
• Topic 2 What Are Deviance and Social Control?
• Topic 3 What is Unique about the Sociology of Deviance?
• Topic 4 How Do Sociologists Undertake Empirical Studies of Deviance?
• Topic 5 Does Deviance Undermine Social Order or Does It Contribute to the Organized Character of Social Life?
• Topic 6 What Are the Historical Origins of Contemporary Attempts to Theorize about the Nature of Deviant Behaviour?
• Topic 7 How Do Social Structures Generate Deviant Outcomes?
• Topic 8 What is the Relationship between Culture and Deviant Behaviour?
• Topic 9 What is the Relationship Between Processes of Social Control and Deviant Behaviour?
• Topic 10 What is the Spatial Distribution of Deviant Behaviour?
• Topic 11 Does Deviant Behaviour Result from Situational Factors?
• Topic 12 How is Deviant Behaviour Organized?
• Topic 13 How Do Behaviours and People Come to Be Seen as Deviant?
• Topic 14 What are Moral Panics and How Do We Explain their Occurrence?
• Topic 15 Is Everyone Equally Vulnerable to Deviant Labels?
• Topic 16 Does Deviance Have Career Dimensions?
• Topic 17 How Do People Who are Labelled as Deviants Manage the Stigma Associated with these Labels?
• Topic 18 How Have Feminist Approaches in Sociology Contributed to the Study of Deviance?
• Topic 19 What Have We Learned?

 

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