📅 Wednesday, May 29th, 2024

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

— Thomas Paine

ECS154A Lecture: more CPU architecture specifics (no notes)

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deviance: any violation of society’s norms
- norms change (from culture to culture, time to time, so what’s considered deviance also changes
- deviance is a social construct always relative (to norms)
label theory
- symbolic interactionist view of deviants
- examines how labels are used in different social processes: banning, detection, attribution, reaction
- banning: behavior/condition is considered undesirable (bad, wrong, immoral, etc) and should be punished/controlled/corrected
  - Sometimes, “moral entrepreneurs” using statistics to persuade the public that something should be “banned”
  - Sometimes, banning is done via legislation
- detection: observation of deviance
  - public, open spaces, bright lights
  - electronic surveillance, personnel to detect
  - contacts with social control bureaucracies
  - stigmatizing attributes - negative characteristics