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SOCI 262

Social Deviance

3 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2026

Topics

  • Normality and deviance
  • Functionalist and strain theories
  • Learning and differential theories
  • Interpretivist theories
  • Conflict theories
  • Media and deviance
  • Sexuality
  • Body modification and body size
  • Gender display
  • Mental health and illness
  • Religion and science

Readings

  • Tami M. Bereska, Deviance, Conformity, and Social Control in Canada. Pearson Canada, 2022.
    Required
  • Required film: Buying Sex (2013).
    Listed reading
  • Required film: Codes of Gender (2012).
    Listed reading
  • Optional film: Selling Sex (2020).
    Listed reading
  • Optional film: Frontline: The Medicated Child (2008).
    Listed reading
  • Optional film: Beyond the Shadows (1989).
    Listed reading
Sources