Course Description
Topics include: the inevitability of deviance and its social utility; cross-cultural variations in appearance and behavioral cues for labeling the deviant; descriptive and explanatory approaches to kinds and amounts of deviance in contemporary American society; social change, anomie and social disorganization theories; the process of stigmatization; formal and informal societal responses to deviance and the deviant; social action implications.
Fall 2025
Instructors
Meeting Patterns
Classes Start:
August 18, 2025
Classes End:
December 2, 2025
Location:
00339 Riddick Hall
Class Days:
M
Class Start Time:
3:00pm
Class End Time:
5:45pm
Class Type:
Lecture
Credits:
3.00
Restrictions:
Prerequisite: Six hrs. SOC or ANT or Graduate standing or PBS status Requisite: Admission to SOC Graduate Program