Social System and Deviant Behaviour

Code:

P708

Acronym:

SSCD

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Social and Human Sciences

Instance: 2013/2014 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master Psychology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIPSI	32	Official Curricular Structure	4	-	6	54	162
		Official Curricular Structure 2012	4	-	6	54	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- To comprehend the social determinants of deviance; 
- To know the main theoretical lines (built on social psychology, sociology, anthropology and ethnography cross over) that gave important contributions to the explanation of deviance and crime; 
- To be capable of linking contemporary social and cultural dynamics with signs of disorder and deviant behaviors. 

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the semestre, students should be capable of:

- making adecuate and founded considerations about socio, cultural and ecological determinants of deviant behavior as well as critically analyse it;

- comprehending and using the main theorical apprcoches of deviant behavior to explain it. Wishfully, the student will learn to open his mind to explanations of deviance that exist beyond psychological perspectives and that interact with them trying to make sense of such complexe phenomena;

- suggest adecuate and critical analysis of emergent deviant phenomena by using theoretical background learned within the course.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Introduction: 
- Changes on the type, structure and meaning of crime in Modernity; 
- The emergence of the city and its dynamic relation with deviance; 
2. The theories: 
- Chicago School (social ecology, deviant worlds…); 
- Learning (differential association); 
- Anomy; 
- Criminal opportunity; 
- Rationality (neutralization techniques); 
- Labelling (social reaction, deviance amplification, moral panics…); 
- Resistance through rituals 
Conclusion: the social construction of deviance 
3. The objects 
- Drugs 
Towards a phenomenology of altered states of consciousness: peace, energy and trip drugs (A. Escohotado); from consumption to different uses; from the effect to experience from the experimental phase to the drug addict identity. 
- Juvenile delinquency 
Juvenile deviant groups (gang, subculture…) 
- Risk and insecurity 
Psychological risk, social risk, risk management, risk society; predatory image of the city 
4. Urban system and contemporary expressions of deviance: emergence of new objects and its comprehensive approach by sociology of deviance, anthropology of marginality and urban ethnography. 

Mandatory literature

Downes, D. & Rock, P.; Understanding deviance. A guide to the sociology of crime and roulebreaking., Oxford: Oxford University Press., 1996
Matza, D. ; Becoming Deviant, Chicago: The University of Chicago press. , 1969
Cohen, A. ; Delinquent Boys. The subculture of the gang, London: Collier MacMillan, 1955
Escohotado, A. ; El libro de los venenos guia de drogas, Madrid: Mondadori, 1990
Ogien, A.; Sociologie de la déviance et usages de dogues. Une contribuition de la sociologie américaine. , Paris: CNRS, groupement de recherche psychotropes, politique et société., 2000
Matza, D. ; Delinquency and Drift., New York: John Wiley, 1964
Muncie, J., McLaughin, E. e Langan, M.; Criminological perspectives – a reader, London: Sage., 1996
Muncie, J. ; Youth and crime: a critical introduction, London: Sage Publications, 1999
Howard Becker; Outsiders – studies on sociology of deviance, New York: Free press , 1969

Teaching methods and learning activities

Expositional; texts and video discussion in small groups.

keywords

Social sciences > Criminology
Social sciences > Sociology > Social changes
Social sciences > Sociology > Societal behaviour
Social sciences > Sociology > Urban sociology

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Exame	100,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

Evaluation is basedon a work group and on a final written exam. Each of those components count 50% for the final classification and to be success, a minimum of 10 points is needed. 

Calculation formula of final grade

The result will be the sum of the classifications obtained in the different evaluation components: 
- participation in classes and performance in the workgroup; 
- final written exam

Classification improvement

Writen exam at the special evaluation season