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SOCY 276 Substantive Issues in Social Deviance Units: 3.00
This course examines a variety of substantive topics in the sociology of deviance. The choice of topics will illustrate the range of theoretical approaches discussed in SOCY 275. The selection of topics will vary from semester to semester but will typically include violence, corporate crime, sexual deviance, and physical stigma.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite None.
Corequisite SOCY 275.
Exclusion SOCY 274.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Contextualize the regulation of socio-legal issues with the influences of social inequality, marginalization, social control, social organization, and cultural change.
- Critically reflect on the role of deviance, social control, and law in society.
- Define and explain the distinction between the law on the books and the law in practice, applying a variety of theoretical approaches to explain, evaluate and critically assess the regulation of morality and deviance.
- Draw on theoretical frameworks to analyze and engage in a variety of contemporary socio-legal debates about deviance and social control.
- Explain the complexities of legal regulation and the challenges and contradictions of using the law to advance or restrain social change.
- Explain the policy implications of historical and contemporary methods of defining and regulating populations through law and the concept of human rights.
- Understand how definitions of deviance and the development of legal responses are influenced and shaped by social, political, and economic relations.