SC 030 Deviance and Social Control (Fall/Spring: 3)
Satisfies Social Sciences Core Requirement
Fulfills Social Science Core Requirement, as well as a requirement in the
Women's Studies Program and the Pre-Law Program.
This course explores the social construction of boundaries between the "normal"
and the so-called "deviant." It examines the struggle between powerful forms
of social control and what these exclude, silence, or marginalize. Of particular
concern is the relationship between dominant forms of religious, legal,
and medical social control and gendered, racialized and global economic
structures of power. The course provides an in-depth historical analysis
of theoretical perspectives used to explain, study and control deviance,
as well as ethical-political inquiry into such matters as religious excess,
crime, madness, corporate and governmental wrong-doing, and sexual subcultures
that resist dominant social norms.
Stephen J. Pfohl, Jared Del Rosso
Last Updated: 02-JUN-09