2022-2023 Undergraduate Bulletin

SOC 240 Social Deviance

3 hours 

Analysis of the manner in which societies come to define certain behaviors as deviant. Particular attention will be paid to the social and cultural processes of social disorganization and conflict, civil disorder and violence, crime, mental illness, suicide, addiction and sexual deviance. Selected theories of deviance will be critically examined.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENG 101 and SOC 101