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Undergraduate Module Descriptor

SOC2009: Deviance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

This module descriptor refers to the 2020/1 academic year.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

The module’s precise content is liable to annual variation. Nonetheless the module will cover some or all of the following themes:

• Classical social and cultural theoretical perspectives on deviance
• Subcultural studies in America
• Subcultural and Post subcultural studies in Britain
• Constructing deviants – exploring cultural representations and structures mobilized in the construction of deviant individuals, groups and behaviours
• Embodiment – sexuality, gender, disability
• Identity politics and the politics of deviance – deviance, inclusion and exclusion (normativity, boundary marking and making)
• Punishment – historical account exploring normative and moral constructions, understandings and responses to deviance
• Control and resistance – critical exploration of Foucault and ‘weak’ cultural approaches to deviance and normativity
• Performativity, ritual and deviance – collective and ritualistic expressions of and responses to deviance
• Risk and anomie  – normative precariousness and social disorder in late modernity

Learning and Teaching

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Online Resources

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