SOC 4111 is also offered in Fall 2024
SOC 4111 is also offered in Fall 2023
SOC 4111 is also offered in Spring 2022
Fall 2019 | SOC 4111 Section 001: Deviant Behavior (33094)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 130
- Enrollment Status:
Closed (56 of 55 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course considers why and how certain attributes and behaviors are defined as deviant, the consequences of deviant labels, and how norms, values, and rules are made and enforced. We will discuss basic concepts that cut across deviance theories and research, including social control, subcultures and deviant careers. We will explore theories of and societal reaction to deviant behavior. We will also discuss methodology and how the "social facts" of deviance are determined and disseminated. Finally, we will examine case studies addressing crime, organizational and occupational deviance, substance use, sexuality, body image, and more. prereq: 3101 or 3102 or instr consent; soc majors/minors must register A-F
- Class Notes:
- Click this link for more detailed information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?steel158+SOC4111+Fall2019
- Class Description:
- What kinds of behaviors and characteristics come to be considered "deviant", and what are the various ways society responds to control them? This course will take a deep dive into the various sociological explanations for how deviance is socially constructed and enforced, and the consequences and implications for doing so. The course will cover a wide range of topics, from classical theories of deviance and social control to post-structural theories of normalization and governance, while placing an emphasis on the role of the body and embodied experience in everyday life in order to highlight the consequences of control and how it can be resisted. Specifically, we will take a focused look at drugs and drug use as a form of deviance and control that impresses upon the lived body, and use this to understand the role of the State, cultural norms and stigma, the law, and social institutions in controlling the range of experiences and behaviors of the living body in society.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33094/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 16 April 2019
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2019 Sociology Classes