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Sociology 3325

• Enhance the student's basic understanding of society as it relates to deviant behavior.
• Help the student appreciate that deviant behavior is to a large extent a product of our social structure.
• Help the student understand man's place, as an individual, in relation to the global magnitude of deviance.
• Encourage the student to discover the problematic character of trying to enforce control over deviant behavior.
• Realize the many social implications of deviant behavior as a label imposed by those in power.
• Learn to see deviance as a natural process in the evolution of human society.