Sociology of deviation and social control 3401-211SDK22

The methamorphosis of the Western forms and ways of organizing the power to punish in the late eighteenth century and three models of social control technology (M. Foucault).
A proposition of studying social facts and verifying the rules of normal and pahtological facts differentiation. Definition of crime as normal social fact; its meaning and function in society (E. Durkheim).
A concept of civilizational normality; the categories of normality, partial normality and deviance. Characteristic of subnormal and overnormal deviants; nonconformists and their role in society (F. Znaniecki).
The range of socio-cultural structure in generating a deviant behaviour. A concept of social anomie and its impact on non-deviant or deviant way of an individual adaptation to goals and means imposed in society (R. Merton).
Social deviance in perspective of symbolic interactionism theory (G. Mead, H. Blummer).
The basic assumption and statements of labelling theory of deviance. Misunderstanding and
a critical examination of labelling (J. Young, K. Plummer).
The role of labelling in create new approach to analysing the process of deviantization as
a side effect of social control (E. Lemert, H. Becker, E. Goffman and others).
Theoretical and empirical reorientation in the study of social deviance and social control
(J. Kwaśniewski, K. Frieske).

Students are expected to prepare and present a paper work on chosen aspect (genesis, state/picture, consequences) of any deviance phenomenon and/or its social control (style, strategy, means, effects).