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| Interactionist Theories on Sexuality |
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| Addresses the process by which people come to understand and attribute meaning to their own sexuality and the sexuality of others. |
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| Critical Perspectives on Sexuality |
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| Addresses the ways power influences people's understanding and attributions of meaning. The role of elite discourse, that is, knowledge about sexuality is conveyed by those in authority and perceived as truth. It examines how political, media, legal religious and scientific discourses of sexuality shape the way we think we can behave. |
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| Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation. This Centre forcuses its approach to sex work on changing the circumstances people in se work are in. All sex work is sexual exploitation. It focuses on giveing financal aid, addiction aid, trauma counselling. Heathy sex involves consent, equality, respect, trust and safety.Not things sex work offers. |
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| An fundamentalism perspective on sex work |
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| Prostitution has existed for a long time in society and so serves a function.It provides sexually represssed men (primarily) with a sex life or an alternate sex life outside of marriage. It allows women to be entrpreneurs and live independantly in a society which tends to favour men monetarily. Prostitution can reduce the incidences of rape and other sexual assault (if you don't consider it sexual assault). CEASE approaches this with the Prostitution offender program or john school. It encourages men to think about the impact of buying sex on themselves, society and the women they buy sex from. It encourages men to realise that the sex they recieve from prostitutes is not healthy sex. It does not comply with safety, respect, safety, consent and trust and so is not a good way to ease their sexual repression. I this way CEASE takes a fundamental approach to sex work by attempting to elliminate the need for it in society |
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| A critical perspective on sex work |
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| CEASE and canadian law take a critical perspective on sex work by focusing on the way outside forces convey knowledge to women about sexuality. Politcal, media, and other social discourses push women who into the sex trade. THis is due to econoimic disparity. The majority of prostituates are young, female and poor and are victims of the gender inequality in sex work. They become powerless against thier pimps or madams, slaves to their addictions and are generally sufferers of trauma. CEASE focuses on easing the influence of these forces which push women int prostitution. |
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| Deviance is a label atatched to some people which has consequences for how they are treated by others and how they come to identify themselves. |
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| We all engage in periodical rule-breaking. Someone who is not caught in a particular act of deviance may eventually just move on. |
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| When you are caught engaging in deviance and are labelled by others around you. This changes the way you see yourself. You see yourself as an outcast of society and begin to only be allowed to spend time with deviants. |
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| Medicine creates catagories for people as scapegoats. The medical and scientific industry has an enormous influence on society. |
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| Szasz and Labelling thepry |
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| Szasz believed that mentally ill people were labeled so and essentially victims of a polutical act. People who behaved deviantly were labelled and sent to mental hospitals to be restrained as they were percieved as threats to society. He argues it was dishonest to label anyone as mentally ill and deprive them of thier rigts. He believed mentally ill people were responsiblefor their actions just like everyone else because they were not in fact diseased. If a persons behaviour endangered anyone else they should be put in jail, and if it did not, they should be left alone. |
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| Current Medical/ Scientific policies and Szasz |
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| Currently we do not lock up people against their will unless they pose harm to ohers or themselves. However, we do not biological explanations of abnormal behaviours and modern day scientific technologies support this. We label behaviour as a mental illness, if people act abnormally we label them ill. brain scanning technologies, genetic analysis and knowledge about neurotransmitters have all led us to an increasingly biological approach to illness. |
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| Conclusion to Szasz and Medicalization of mental illness |
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| A person who breaks one or more rules of society shhould not and is not always assigned a label of mentally ill in society. Sometimes if people are diagnosed as mentally ill they may begin to accept tis social role and find it difficult to fit into normal society. Kowing someone suffers from a psychiatric or psychological disorder creates a stigma or feeling of social inadequacy in the person. |
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| Relations Between Aboriginal People's and the Rest of Canada |
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| In the early colnial era, people from Europe came to Canada and labelled the Aboriginals here as deviant and inferior. THey chose to attempt to make them more like Europeans while still believing them to be biologically inferior and this created many problems lasting into our century. Those include increased rates of crime, abuse, mental health issues trauma and poverty in residential areas |
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| The Indian act and relations between the Aboriginal peoples and the rest of Canada |
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| MAny Canadians believe the solution to the problem of the Natives is to encourage them to integrate into Canadian lifestyls. They believe the best steo is to get rid of the Indian Act. Promises concerning land and care were not met. The reserves exist at first to keep their differences and perceived inferiority out of the rest of society. |
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| Young offenders and gang members percieved as threats to society. Viewed as potentail threats to themselves and society. The time between child and adult.Gangs emerge in areas of low economic success. Legitimate mean of achieving social and economic success are few. Gangs offer them physical protection, a community to depend on. |
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perceived as threat to themselves. On some level all youth are perceived as threats to themselves and society. Parent and peer influences have been analyzed as causal factors of youth crime.
Factors which correlate with youth crime: percieving shcool as unsafe, being stolen from, spending more time with friends or alone than wih family. Peers accept illegal acts.Abuse prevention is where we spend a lot of our money and efforts in concern with dealing with trouble youths, because substance abuse can lead to other issues in society. |
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| Overtime differing policies of the government on troubling youths |
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Now we focus on preventative measures. Since we believe gang membership leads to a troubling youth group we attempt to get rid of gangs. We teach parenting models to people in these areas. Offer educational upgrading, job training, assistance in finding employment, free tattoo removal
During the 19th century in the Industrial Revolution children were left unsupervised a lot becaue of the long hours working class parents had. The Juvenile |Delinquents act: principle being that the state would act in the best interests of children under the age of 16. With the right assistance and correct teacing, youth could be put on the right path in life.
Yooung Offenders Act: An offending youth was now seen as a delinquent rather than someone simply led astray. |
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| All youth are trouobling. |
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| Most teenagers conform to larger society. Our cultural focus on problems leads us to lose sight of the fact that the majority of families and teenagers are doing just fine. |
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| : These crimes are generally agreed to be serious by most members of a society. They are characterized by high social agreement, response, and/or harm. |
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| These are crimes that have low social agreement, varied social response, and varied social harm. Some individuals believe that particular conflict crimes are very serious while others may believe that these crimes are not serious at all. The social agreement on conflict crimes tend to be split by social groups. In other words, specific groups in society have particular biases towards the social agreement of seriousness of these conflcit crimes. |
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| Social deviation generally has low social agreement on seriousness and the social response to deviation is often varied, with either formal or informal institutions enforcing the adherence to norms. People with more resources generally tend to be able to avoid social response better than those without these resources. |
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| Acts that fall under the category of diversions are those that are considered by the society to be acceptable variations in lifestyle. Social deviations can become social diversions when many people take part in the deviation and make it fashionable. Note that other societies may regard these social diversions as unacceptable within their collection of norms. |
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| Functionalism: Merton's Strain THeory, Cloward and Ohlin's differential opportunity theory, Agnew's general strain theory and Cohen's status frustration theory |
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| Draw attention to the role that the structure of society itself plays in the emergence of deviance |
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| Learning theories: Sutherland's differential association theory, Syke's and Matza' neutralization theory and social learning theory |
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| the centrality of learning processes in the emergence of deviance. People learn to be deviat from those around them |
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| Social Control Theories: Hirschi's social bonds theory |
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| explains why not all of us become deviant |
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| General THeories of crime:Gottfredson and Hirschi |
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| address the influenece parenting patterns have on the devleopment of self-control |
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| Positivist Theories on Crime |
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| Objective look and quantitative measurement of criminals. Cesare Lombroso and the heads. Born with i. Absolute moral order is the standard or determining deviance |
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| Constructionist perspectives on Deviance |
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| No reality outside perception. Social processes and society create deviance. |
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| Social pathologies transgress social norms and are harmful to society |
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| Treating Mental Illness Today |
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| Even though there there exists a stigma around mental illness, which tends to lead to their social isolation in many circumstances, the medical treatment of it have become quite successful at im[roving the functioning and quality of life for individuals with mental illnesses. There was a deinstiutionlaition movement which caused people to move out of hospitals and only reinstated in the most severe cases. psychopharmaceutical treatment and psychosocial treatments are used |
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| religious fundamentlism may be a reaction to feelings of social meaninglessness. |
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| Subjectivist views on human physical appearance |
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| Our perspecti c on human physical appearance tell us about self, identity formation how we view ourselves and attribute meaning to our physical apearances. They tell us charactersitics about the broader society and culture. THe processes of social interactiona and structures |
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| Quantify ddeviance. Assumes there is something within the individual that contributes to deviance. The outside measure of thi assumes something is internally happening which is wrong in the body |
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| Subjectivist percption of the body |
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| Process by which certain people are looked at differentyl the ooutside measure assume something internal is occuringThe wy they look is given a certain perspective. |
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| In any given culture at any specific tme in history only a certain range of body [arts are coniered normal, conforming or deal. Outside of this is considered in need of modification |
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| Being ideal weigt, Ideal BMI is associated with the lowest health risks.Stereoptypd as neomg emotionally and socially handi-capped, lazy, sad, unnattractive, ugly, bad and lacking self-control. Media does not portray the numbers of people being overweight nd obese acurately, laing to distorted perceptions of their "normalness". Weight loss for women and muscle gain for men is highly commercialized. Media is highly influential. |Fat aceeptance. is it designed to lessen obesity? Is it because the majority of people are now overweight. |
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| Range of characters pertaining to and differentiation between and from masculinity. Women who appear more masculine may not be percieved as attractive due to biological ideas about gender roles in reproducion. |
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| Distinction between sex and gender |
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| sex ( anatomy) of reproductive orans and secondary sex characteristics, from gebder. This can refer to either social roles based on the sex of the person of the identification of ones own gender based internal awareness. |
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| Denoting or relating to a world view hat promotes heterosexuality as the normal or preferred sexual orientation. |
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| Policiess about normal sex |
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| fetishes, teacher-student, counsellor-counsellee, deviance dance. science tells us homosexuality is not a choice and so is not a sin. Two same sex= not norma a GAP MAY GROW BETWEEN OUR IDEAL SELVES AND PERCIEVED SELVES |
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