Deviance Difference & Conformity
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 36 Hours
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
2022 teaching periods
Swinburne Online Teaching Period 3 |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Prerequisites
Aims and objectives
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Evaluate and apply a sociological perspective to the social world around them
2. Identify and differentiate the major theoretical perspectives that explain the sociological concept of deviance
3. Define and use a range of key sociological concepts to appraise the ways in which social processes and structures respond to notions and categories of deviance in a contemporary context
4. Discuss and critique published work and communicate this through informed written argument.
Courses with unit
BA-ART3 Bachelor of Arts
BB-ARTBUS1 Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Business
BB-ARTSC Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
BB-EDSART1 Bachelor of Education (Secondary)/Bachelor of Arts
BB-LAWART Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Arts
NOTE: This unit is in many Major unit sequences including Criminology, Behavioural Studies and Human Services Practice.
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Face to Face Contact Lecture | 1 | 12 | 12 |
Face to Face Contact Tutorial | 2 | 12 | 24 |
Specified Learning Activities Readings | 2 | 12 | 24 |
Unspecified Learning Activities Independent Learning | 7.5 | 12 | 90 |
TOTAL | 150 hours |
Swinburne Online
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Online Contact Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning | 12.5 | 12 | 150 |
TOTAL | 150 hours |
Assessment
Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
Essay | Individual | 30% | 1, 2, 3, 4 |
Project Presentation | Individual | 30% | 3, 4 |
Project Reports | Individual / Group | 40% | 1, 2, 3 |
General skills outcomes
• Teamwork Skills.
• Analysis Skills.
• Problem Solving Skills.
• Communication Skills.
• Ability to tackle unfamiliar problems.
• Ability to work independently.
Content
• Sociological evolution of deviance.
• Rules and the normative dimension: “kinds of people”; “kinds of rules”, notions of difference.
• The modern context: the death of deviance.
• Surveillance: Foucault and the postmodern world of post-deviance.
• Feminism and deviance.
• Law and deviance.
• Crime, punishment and deviance.
• Bodies and deviance.
• Sex, sexuality, gender and deviance.
• Minds and deviance.
• Institutions: the church and the state and deviance.
Study resources
- Reading materials.