SOCY1030 · Sociology

Deviance and Social Control

Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences

This course explores the social construction of boundaries between the "normal" and the so-called "deviant." It examines the struggle between powerful forms of social control and what these exclude, silence, or marginalize. Of particular concern is the relationship between dominant forms of religious, legal, and medical social control and gendered, racialized, and global economic structures of power. The course provides an in-depth historical analysis of theoretical perspectives used to explain, study, and control deviance, as well as ethical-political inquiry into such matters as religious excess, crime, madness, corporate and governmental wrong-doing, and sexual subcultures that resist dominant social norms.

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Stephen Pfohl

Jaclyn Carroll

Kyle Carr

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