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| holds deviance to be absolutely or intrinsically real, possesses some qualities that distinguish it from conventionality |
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| "the person may not have committed a 'deviant' act, but he did (in many cases) do something. And it is just possible that what he did was a result of things that happened to him in the past; it is also possible that the past in some inscrutably way remains with him and that if he were left alone he would do it again." |
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| "Some people are more crazy than others; we can tell the difference; and calling lunacy a name does not cause it." |
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| who are positive sociologists likely to study? |
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| deviant behavior and deviant persons |
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| deviance as absolutely real |
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| deviance as an observable object |
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| deviance as a determined behavior |
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| three assumptions of positivist sociologists |
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1. deviance is absolutely real in that it has certain qualities that distinguish it from conventionality
2. deviance is an observable object in that a deviant person is like an object and thus can be studied objectively
3. deviance is determined by forces beyond the individual's control |
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| "Deviant behavior is behavior that people label so." |
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| behavior gets defined as a deviant relative to a given norm or standard of behavior, which is to say, the way people react to it |
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| deviance as a subjective experience |
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