Social System and Deviance

Code:

PJD04

Acronym:

SSD

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Psychology

Instance: 2023/2024 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Master Degree in Psychology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MPSIC	28	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2021	1	-	6	54	162
MTP	4	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	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

Matza, D. ; Becoming Deviant, Chicago: The University of Chicago press. , 1969
Cohen, A. ; Delinquent Boys. The subculture of the gang, London: Collier MacMillan, 1955
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
Howard Becker; Outsiders – studies on sociology of deviance, New York: Free press , 1969
Gonçalo Pereira Rosa; O "arrastão de Carcavelos como onde noticiosa, Análise Social, vol. XLVI (198), 115-135, 2011
McLaughin, E and Muncie, J.; Criminological perspectives: essential readings, Sage, 2013
Muncie, J.; Youth and crime, Sage, 2009
Downes, D. and Rock, P.; Understanding deviance, Oxford, 2003
Antonio Escohotado; Aprendiendo de las Drogas: Usos y Abusos, Prejuicios y Desafios , Anagrama, 2002

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

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	78,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Trabalho laboratorial	30,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Evaluation is based on a work group and on a final written individual report. Each of those components count for 50% of the final classification and, to be successful, a minimum of 8 points in each component with a mean of 10 is needed. 

Calculation formula of final grade

The result will be the sum of the classifications obtained in the different evaluation components: 
- performance in the workgroup - 50%; 
- final written exam - 50%

All classifications will be expressed in values between 0 and 20.

Classification improvement

According to what is expressed in the regulation and only through final exam.